These two volumes make available the fruits of Brian Tierney's long-standing search for the
roots of modem natural rights theory in the legal doctrines (and especially the canon law …

Brian Tierney has established himself over the course of forty-five years of writing and
teaching as one of the world's leading authorities on the history of medieval canon law and …

Idea of Permissive Natural Law, 1100-1800, continues a prolific and influential line of
scholarship that challenges the notion of a substantial break between pre-modern and …

Introduction This is an article about rights in thirteenth century canon law. Such a premise is
not uncontroversial, at least among historians and theorists of rights. Historians of the …

This book is part of a journey. The physical journey began more than a decade ago, when in
the course of reading eighteenth-century newspapers and the correspondence of religious …

Our civilizations have produced thousands of masterpieces, developed astounding
knowledge which speaks of the constructive power of the human mind, but we are still …

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness as inalienable, having their source in the Creator. 1 This proclamation was a …

No monograph on any aspect of criminal procedure and trial is nowadays considered
complete without at least a short appendix to inform the reader two parts; the layman will …

written by philosophers and philosophy by historians. Historians of the idea of rights will find
the contributions of Brian Tierney, Gary Glenn, and George Carey of special interest while …

I In presenting Ihe origins and early history-a sort of" Ur-history"-of the idea of natural rights, I
shall necessarily be describing a Western construct. It is important, therefore, to emphasize …