Law, Justice, and the Individual

By Ernst Hirsch Ballin

In this lecture - the first Dutch Thomas More Lecture, given in 's-Hertogenbosch on 30 March 2011 - Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Amsterdam, 1950), former Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior, now a professor of law at the universities of Tilburg and Amsterdam, finds common ground between Thomas More's early sixteenth century Christian humanism and present-day issues of law and justice. The beginning of Utopia is set in the Low Countries, and opens with a meeting in Antwerp between Thomas More and the Flemish humanist Peter Giles, after More had visited the Cathedral of our Lady in Antwerp. Giles introduced More to a fictitious traveller who had sailed the Seven Seas. But the meeting between More and Giles in Antwerp was real.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900422338X
• ISBN13: 9789004223387
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 4.7" x 7.5"