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Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and a Constitutional Right

Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and a Constitutional Right

Author: Aharon Barak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107462069

Published In: January 2015
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781107090231

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Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a constitutional right, it gives full expression to the value of human dignity, subject to the specific demands of constitutional architecture.

This analytical study of human dignity as both a constitutional value and a constitutional right adopts a legal-interpretive perspective. It explores the sources of human dignity as a legal concept, its role in constitutional documents, its content, and its scope. The analysis is augmented by examples from comparative legal experience, including chapters devoted to the role of human dignity in American, Canadian, German, South African, and Israeli constitutional law.

Introduction

Part I. Fundamental Concepts and History:

1. The various aspects of human dignity

2. The intellectual history of the social value of human dignity

3. Human dignity as a value and as a right in international documents

4. Human dignity as a value and as a right in constitutions

Part II. Human Dignity as a Constitutional Value:

5. Purposive constitutional interpretation

6. The role of human dignity as a constitutional value

7. Three types of models for determining the content of the constitutional value of human dignity

Part III. Human Dignity as a Constitutional Right:

8. Recognition of the constitutional right to human dignity and its content