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Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism) - Hardcover

Book 15 of 17: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

Daly, Erin

 
9780812244403: Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812244400 ISBN 13: 9780812244403
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012

Synopsis

Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. In it, 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.
This updated edition features a new preface by the author, in which she articulates how, over the past decade, dignity rights cases have evolved to incorporate the convergence of human rights and environmental rights that we have seen at the international level and in domestic constitutions.

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About the Author

Erin Daly is Professor of Law and H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law at Widener University School of Law. She is coauthor (with Jeremy Sarkin) of Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Aharon Barak is a former President of the Supreme Court of Israel and author of several books, including The Judge in Democracy.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0812244400
ISBN 13 
9780812244403
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272