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Julia’S Nuptials: Free, Freed, And Slave Marriage In Late Fifth Century Roman Law, Hannah Basta, Cam Grey
Julia’S Nuptials: Free, Freed, And Slave Marriage In Late Fifth Century Roman Law, Hannah Basta, Cam Grey
DISCOVERY: Georgia State Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal
In 468 AD, a certain woman named Julia went to the Roman Emperor Anthemius to declare that she had married her former slave, her freedman. Roman law on the matter had previously stated that free women who knowingly cohabited with slaves would relinquish their freedom along with the freedom of any children resulting from such a union, and they would all become slaves of the master of the slave to whom she married. The law avoided any mention of marriages to freedmen. Marriages resembling Julia’s then, occupied a grey area in Roman law for over four hundred years. In response …
A Sea Change In Security: How The ‘War On Terror’ Strengthened Human Rights, Michael Galchinsky
A Sea Change In Security: How The ‘War On Terror’ Strengthened Human Rights, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
In many ways the Bush administration's "war on terror" weakened states' respect for their human rights obligations, and the UN Security Council's initial response to 9/11 seemed to follow the Bush administration's lead. In keeping with its historical lack of engagement with human rights questions, the SC in 2001-2003 did little to ensure that the counter-terrorism measures it demanded of states would take their obligations under human rights and humanitarian law into account. However, starting in 2002, a backlash against the perceived excesses wrought by the SC’s counter-terrorism measures gained momentum. Other UN bodies, as well as NGOs, regional intergovernmental …