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There Are No Ordinary People: Christian Humanism And Christian Legal Thought, Richard W. Garnett
There Are No Ordinary People: Christian Humanism And Christian Legal Thought, Richard W. Garnett
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This short essay is a contribution to a volume celebrating a new casebook, "Christian Legal Thought: Materials and Cases", edited by Profs. Patrick McKinley Brennan and William S. Brewbaker.
Human Dignity And Judicial Interpretation Of Human Rights: A Reply, Paolo G. Carozza
Human Dignity And Judicial Interpretation Of Human Rights: A Reply, Paolo G. Carozza
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This essay is a reply to Christopher McCrudden's Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights, 19 EJIL 655 (2008). It argues that McCrudden's study of the uses of the idea of human dignity in constitutional human rights adjudication confirms the thesis that there is at present an emerging global ius commune of human rights. Although McCrudden understates the existence and value of transnational agreement about human dignity and instead emphasizes divergences in the judicial uses of human dignity, in fact there is good reason to regard the core recognition of the status and principle of human dignity as more …