LAW AND THE INNER SELF PROJECT
The Research Project
The idea that each of us has a rich inner life made up of unmanifested thoughts, emotions, hopes and desires is a profoundly important socio-cultural narrative that has shaped how we understand ourselves and our social institutions. The Law and the Inner Self (LAWINSEL) Project seeks to better understand the evolution and nature of this idea of the inner self by examining it through the prism of legal change from the Middle Ages through to the digital transformations of the 21st century. To illustrate legal change, we use developments in the field of personality rights as a case study.
We will track and interpret the significance of legal developments (as they pertain to the idea of the inner self) across the following six bodies of Jurisprudence:
The Jurisprudence of the Medieval Lawyers
11th to 14th Centuries
The Jurisprudence of Individualism
19th Century
The Jurisprudence of Legal Humanism & Natural Law
15th to 17th Centuries
The Jurisprudence of Human Rights
20th Century
The Jurisprudence of the Enlightenment
18th Century
The Jurisprudence of Digital Transformations
21st Century
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School of Law, Aras na Laoi,
University College Cork,
Cork T12 T656
Ireland

