Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person

by Erin Daly

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244400
• ISBN13: 9780812244403
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"