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

by Erin Daly

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224752
• ISBN13: 9780812224757
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"