Prof. Dr Matthias Jestaedt on the potential of constitutions between transformation and stability

On 10 December 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For the first time in history, this document formulated the rights of the individual. “We had lived in political organisations for two and a half thousand years without human rights being recognised as such,” says Prof. Dr Sitta von Reden, Chair of Ancient History. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "the concept of dignity appears in this pronounced form for the first time ever,” says Prof. Dr Jörn Leonhard, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History. Legal scholar Prof. Dr Matthias Jestaedt also attests to the document: “This was the beginning of a whole new era.” Jestaedt, Leonhard and von Reden conduct research on constitutions and constitutional practices at the University of Freiburg. The Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 makes the complexity of this endeavour tangible because the declaration itself was not a constitution in the classical sense.
Research profile: uni-freiburg.de/research/rese...
Webseite der Universität Freiburg: www.uni-freiburg.de/
Videoportal: videoportal.vm.uni-freiburg.de/
Die Universität Freiburg in den Sozialen Medien:
- Facebook: / unifreiburg
- X: x.com/UniFreiburg
- Mastodon: bawü.social/@unifreiburg
- Instagram: / unifreiburg
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/school/17631...
- Xing: www.xing.com/companies/albert...