Protection of the Right to Honor and Reputation – A Historical Overview
Protection of the Right to Honor and Reputation – A Historical Overview

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the legal protection of honor and reputation through different historical time-periods. The available bibliography usually considers the issue within a specific time-period, such as the Roman times or the Middle Ages. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a historical overview of the protection of the right to honor and reputation, from its initial recognition and protection within religious texts to the modern laws. In the classification of personality rights by parts of legal theory and international (human rights) documents, including the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), honor and reputation are not expressly recognized, but subsumed under the right to privacy. This paper attempts to show that honor and reputation have throughout history been acknowledged as inherent aspects of humanity and perceived as independent interests worthy of protection.

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