The Right to be Oneself

What does the right to be oneself entail? And how is it manifest in our understanding of the law? The leading commentator on this subject explores these questions, taking an ambitious and multi-faceted approach. To answer them, he draws on private law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, as well as history, art and literature. This treatise, translated from the Italian original and expanded to give a more international perspective, is the seminal work on the development of identity-protection through law.

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• Authors: Guido Alpa, Alpa Guido
• Assisted by: Marija Bartl (Editor), Anna Beckers (Editor), Simon Deakin (Editor), Daniel Markovits (Editor), Hans-W Micklitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.12.2025
• EAN: 9781509972487
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-7248-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Future of Private Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Law, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Discrimination, LAW / Gender & the Law, Human rights, civil rights, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Civil codes / Civil law, legal philosophy; constitutional law; human rights; Identity