The civil law and the inner self: Roman Iniuria and the transformation of the private sphere

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dc.contributor.authorDeibel, Talyaen
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-10T10:29:34Z
dc.date.available2025-11-10T10:29:34Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the transhistorical nature of the protection of personality interests in the civilian tradition. It takes Roman iniuria as a key concept to analyze the legal protection of the “inner selves” of human beings. The legal framework of iniuria stands out as an illustration of how social and moral phenomena which belonged to the interior realm such as honor, dignity, emotions, and reputation carried legal value in Roman law. Starting from its origins in Roman antiquity, this paper views the inner self through the legal prism of personality protection and comments on how formative periods in history prepared the doctrinal basis for modern civil codes. In this context, Roman iniuria becomes an illustration of how private law transgresses the boundaries between the outer-the inner and the body-the mind. As such, this paper provides a broader vision based on comparative and historical methodologies to be able to analyze personality rights in the 21st century.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationDeibel, T. (2024) 'The civil law and the inner self: Roman Iniuria and the transformation of the private sphere', Journal of Civil Law Studies, 16(1), pp. 54-97. Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jcls/vol16/iss1/3 (Accessed: 10 November 2025)en
dc.identifier.endpage97en
dc.identifier.issn1944-3749en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Civil Law Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage54en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18165
dc.identifier.volume16en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherLouisiana State Universityen
dc.relation.urihttps://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jcls/vol16/iss1/3en
dc.rights© 2024, Louisiana State University. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at LSU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Civil Law Studies by an authorized editor of LSU Law Digital Commons.en
dc.subjectDefamationen
dc.subjectIniuriaen
dc.subjectInner selfen
dc.subjectPersonality rightsen
dc.subjectPrivate sphereen
dc.subjectRoman lawen
dc.subject~Law - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleThe civil law and the inner self: Roman Iniuria and the transformation of the private sphereen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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