Measures To Protect the Rights of Marginalized Groups in Vietnamese Law from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries - History and Lessons

Abstract

Summary: Access to human rights, including the rights of marginalized groups from an interdisciplinary perspective in jurisprudence and history, has been studied in a number of monographs. However, the works mainly focus on 1 specific period in Vietnamese feudal law or learn about the rights of certain groups. A systematic, comprehensive view of Vietnam's feudal legal system in terms of demonstrating the rights of marginalized groups therefore remains a gap in research in general. Studying legal documents in Feudal Vietnam from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, it can be seen that the monarchical state through the dynasties has focused on protecting the rights of many vulnerable people in society, namely: women, the elderly, children, disabled people, ethnic minority, lonely people with nowhere to rely on, prisoners, slaves… Not only prescribed in writing, the state also applies different solutions so that those rights are guaranteed to be implemented in practice. The experiences of his fathers in history should be inherited and referenced in the context of Vietnam today towards the goal of building a socialist rule of law, contributing to improving the effectiveness of the development and improvement of the law on the protection of human rights in general, the rights of marginalized groups in particular.