A Research Agenda for Human Dignity and the Law

Erin Daly (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2599-3 (ISBN)

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This thought-provoking Research Agenda explores cutting-edge developments in dignity law and maps out the critical areas in which further research is needed. It investigates topical issues including democracy, liberal modernity, immigration, and income inequality.

A Research Agenda for Human Dignity and the Law surveys how the commitment to human dignity has become the foundation of human rights law, and examines how its fulfilment has changed the global legal landscape, including in constitutions and courts. Expert scholars from across the globe utilize case studies and theoretical analysis to consider how dignity law relates to a broad range of contemporary issues, such as artificial intelligence, the rights of nature, and gender apartheid. By focusing on lived experience, they propose pathways of further research to ensure that the law protects the dignity of those in vulnerable circumstances. Collectively, these contributions demonstrate the transformational potential of dignity law as a legal tool for bettering the human condition.

Presenting the salient features of inquiry for the next generations of human rights research alongside practical knowledge, this book is an essential resource for scholars and researchers of human rights, international relations, law and society, constitutional law, and legal theory. It also serves as an insightful guide for human rights lawyers and policymakers.

Edited by Erin Daly, Emerita Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School, USA

Contents
1 Introduction to human dignity and the law 1
Erin Daly
PART I MAPPING DIGNITY RESEARCH
2 Human dignity and human rights 13
Manfred Nowak
3 Human dignity and democracy 29
Catherine Dupré
4 The dignity of children 45
Erin Daly
5 Climate dignity and human rights in the era of climate
change 63
Alexandra Aragão
6 Human dignity and dignity of nature 85
Ginevra Le Moli
7 Human dignity in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act: A case of
chasing shadows in the dark? 103
Sue Anne Teo
8 Re-narrating human dignity at the crossroads of liberal
modernity 121
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu
PART II EXPERIENCING DIGNITY AND INDIGNITY
9 Human dignity in global politics: Towards a dignity index 139
Zaynab El Bernoussi and Raslan Ibrahim
10 Dignity, ubuntu and gender apartheid: Perspectives from a
South Africa feminist 155
Penelope Andrews
11 Migration, detention, and dignity 173
Glykeria Teji
12 How the lived experience of dignity could inform the
development of international human rights law: A study
from Australia 195
Patrick Keyzer
13 Economic dignity in tax policy and systems 213
Nicholas A. Mirkay
14 Restoring dignity: Transitional justice in post-conflict
societies 237
Sandra M. Rios Oyola
15 Teaching dignity: A human dignity clinic perspective from
Bhutan 255
Dema Lham
Index 269

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Research Agendas
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-0353-2599-3 / 1035325993
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2599-3 / 9781035325993
Zustand	Neuware