Erin Daly

Dignity Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subjects as diverse as health care, imprisonment, privacy, education, culture, the environment, sexuality, and death. As the range and growing number of cases about dignity attest, it is invoked and recognized by courts far more frequently than other constitutional guarantees.

Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. Erin Daly shows how dignity has come not only to define specific interests like the right to humane treatment or to earn a living wage, but also to protect the basic rights of a person to control his or her own life and to live in society with others. Daly argues that, through the right to dignity, courts are redefining what it means to be human in the modern world. As described by the courts, the scope of dignity rights marks the outer boundaries of state power, limiting state authority to meet the demands of human dignity. As a result, these cases force us to reexamine the relationship between the individual and the state and, in turn, contribute to a new and richer understanding of the role of the citizen in modern democracies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812207279
• Artikelnr.: 40882356

Autorenporträt

Erin Daly

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
—Aharon Barak
Introduction
Chapter 1. "Of All Members of the Human Family"
Chapter 2. "Not . . . a Mere Plaything"
Chapter 3. "The Minimum Necessities of Life"
Chapter 4. "Master of One's Fate"
Chapter 5. "What Respect Is Due"
Chapter 6. "The Beginning and the End of the State"
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments