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Articles 1 - 29 of 29
Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law
Torts And Personhood, Melissa Mortazavi
Torts And Personhood, Melissa Mortazavi
Arkansas Law Review
Perhaps more so than ever, legal personhood is contested. Part I of this Article lays out an overview of existing tort theories exposing the limitations of existing paradigms. This positions the reader to consider in Part II the core assertion of this paper: that a fundamental role of torts is to define personhood. As such, it explores the idea that a principal project that each tort case and litigant is engaged with is not truly about money, property, or even pain per se—it is about determining who is seen.
The Christian Invention Of Human Dignity (Research Materials), Holy Cross Libraries
The Christian Invention Of Human Dignity (Research Materials), Holy Cross Libraries
Library Resources for Campus Events
A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "The Christian Invention of Human Dignity" a lecture by Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale University, who argues that human dignity has to be linked to the invention of Christian democracy. The lecture is sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, and was held at the College of the Holy Cross on February 26, 2019.
"Dignity In Living And In Dying": The Henry H. H. Remak Memorial Lecture, George P. Smith
"Dignity In Living And In Dying": The Henry H. H. Remak Memorial Lecture, George P. Smith
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This Article derives from the Henry H.H. Remak Memorial Lecture given at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University on March 22, 2017.
How Does The Law Put A Historical Analogy To Work?: Defining The Imposition Of "A Condition Analogous To That Of A Slave" In Modern Brazil, Rebecca J. Scott, Leonardo Augusto De Andrade Barbosa, Carlos Henrique Borlido Haddad
How Does The Law Put A Historical Analogy To Work?: Defining The Imposition Of "A Condition Analogous To That Of A Slave" In Modern Brazil, Rebecca J. Scott, Leonardo Augusto De Andrade Barbosa, Carlos Henrique Borlido Haddad
Articles
Over the last decades, the Brazilian state has engaged in concerted legal efforts to identify and prosecute cases of what officials refer to as “slave labor” (trabalho escravo). At a conceptual level, the campaign has paired the constitutional protection of human dignity and the “social value of labor” with an expansive interpretation of the offense described in Article 149 of the Criminal Code as “the reduction of a person to a condition analogous to that of a slave.” At the operational level, mobile teams of inspectors and prosecutors have intervened in thousands of work sites, and labor prosecutors …
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
Journal Articles
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.
Statutory Progress And Obstacles To Achieving An Effective Criminal Legislation Against The Modern Day Forms Of Slavery: The Case Of France, Bénédicte Bourgeois
Statutory Progress And Obstacles To Achieving An Effective Criminal Legislation Against The Modern Day Forms Of Slavery: The Case Of France, Bénédicte Bourgeois
Michigan Journal of International Law
In August 2013, the French Parliament passed a statute meant to bring domestic law into conformity with several European legal instruments recently adopted. The statute explicitly addressed for the first time contemporary forms of slavery, servitude, and forced labor by establishing a set of four offenses that criminalize these three types of severe labor exploitation. For lawmakers as well as for many stakeholders in the fight against modern-day slavery, that achievement marked the culmination of a series of piecemeal amendments to criminal law and narrow advances in case law, which gradually enhanced the penal repression of modern-day slavery over the …
Bruised Soul Of The Artist: A Tribute To Sheldon W. Halpern, Anita L. Allen
Bruised Soul Of The Artist: A Tribute To Sheldon W. Halpern, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
In an unusual case, Scottish-born painter Peter Doig was accused of wrongfully denying the authenticity of a painting he insisted he did not paint, to the financial detriment of the work’s owner. Doig won the case against him, which commenced in 2013 and continued for three years. United States District Judge Gary Feinerman ultimately ruled that the evidence presented in a week-long trial proved “conclusively” that Doig did not paint the plaintiff owner’s painting. The case raised concerns about whether a living artist should ever be required by law to authenticate a work of art ascribed to him or her …
Dignity, Vol 1, Issue 1, 2016, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Dignity, Vol 1, Issue 1, 2016, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
Human Dignity As A Normative Standard Or As A Value In Global Health Care Decisionmaking?, George P. Smith
Human Dignity As A Normative Standard Or As A Value In Global Health Care Decisionmaking?, George P. Smith
George P Smith
Abstract
Dignity is seen commonly as an ethical obligation owed to human persons. The dimensions of this obligation, in today’s post secular society, are—however—subject to wide discussion and debate; for, the term, human dignity, and its preservation, defies universal agreement. Yet its preservation, together with the prevention of indignity, is a guiding principle or at least a vector of force in a wide range of issues ranging from embryo research and assisted reproduction to biomedical enhancement, and the care of the disable and to the dying. In clinical medicine, safeguarding the dignity of the patient is a core responsibility of …
Functions Of Freedom: Privacy, Autonomy, Dignity, And The Transnational Legal Process, Frederic G. Sourgens
Functions Of Freedom: Privacy, Autonomy, Dignity, And The Transnational Legal Process, Frederic G. Sourgens
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
What is the function of freedom for the transnational legal process? This Article answers this question through the lens of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and the deeply inconsistent international legal arguments presented by each side of the conflict. These inconsistencies suggest that criticism of international law as purely political pretense has merits. The Article shows that transnational legal process theory can account for and incorporate these facial inconsistencies and thus address the criticism leveled at international law. The Article proceeds to develop a theory of freedom as a value that is internal to, and necessary for, transnational legal process. This …
Dignity And The Eighth Amendment: A New Approach To Challenging Solitary Confinement, Laura L. Rovner
Dignity And The Eighth Amendment: A New Approach To Challenging Solitary Confinement, Laura L. Rovner
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails has come under increasing scrutiny. Over the past few months, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy all but invited constitutional challenges to the use of solitary confinement, while President Obama asked, “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day for months, sometime for years at a time?” Even some of the most notorious prisons and jails, including California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and New York’s Rikers Island, are reforming their use of solitary confinement because of successful litigation …
Human Rights Pragmatism And Human Dignity, David Luban
Human Rights Pragmatism And Human Dignity, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Human rights sound a lot like moral rights: rights that we have because we are human. Many philosophers think it follows that the list of international human rights must therefore be founded on some philosophical account of moral rights or of human dignity. More recently, other philosophers have rejected this foundationalist picture of international human rights (“foundationalist” meaning that moral rights are the foundation of international human rights). These critics argue that international human rights need no philosophical foundation; instead, we should look to the actual practices of human rights: the practices of international institutions, tribunals, NGOs, monitors, and activists. …
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
Paolo G. Carozza
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 …
Corruption And Human Rights: Exploring The Relationships, Berihun Adugna Gebeye
Corruption And Human Rights: Exploring The Relationships, Berihun Adugna Gebeye
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Corruption is a global phenomenon which every society faces though its degree of severity varies from country to country. Despite its long history, there is no single universally agreed upon definition of corruption. Moreover, its causes, forms and impacts are diverse and multi-faceted. Understanding corruption by itself is a complex undertaking. However, it is agreed that corruption is inimical to public administration, undermines democracy, degrades the moral fabrics of the society and violates human rights. The pain of corruption touches all the human family but it disproportionately affects the vulnerable sections of the society. It reinforces discrimination, exclusion and arbitrariness. …
International Organization And Poverty Alleviation, William F. Felice, Diana Fuguitt
International Organization And Poverty Alleviation, William F. Felice, Diana Fuguitt
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The World Trade Organization and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Sarah Joseph, David Kinley & Jeff Waincymer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2009.
and
Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights. By Desmond McNeill & Asunción St. Clair. New York, NY: Routledge. 2009.
and
Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. By Catherine Weaver. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2008.
The Mystery Of Life In The Laboratory Of Democracy: Personal Autonomy In State Law, Adam J. Macleod
The Mystery Of Life In The Laboratory Of Democracy: Personal Autonomy In State Law, Adam J. Macleod
Faculty Articles
Recent controversies, such as enactment of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and the legalization of assisted suicide in Washington and Montana, have renewed the war over personal autonomy. Debates about the value and limits of personal autonomy also play major roles in the controversies over abortion, same-sex intimacy, and same-sex marriage. On one side of the autonomy war, advocates of unfettered individual freedom assert that by her un-coerced and autonomous choice, the individual person determines the value of human goods such as life, health, and marriage.
On the other side, proponents of strong government restrictions on personal choice …
Human Dignity, Humiliation, And Torture, David Luban
Human Dignity, Humiliation, And Torture, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Modern human rights instruments ground human rights in the concept of human dignity, without providing an underlying theory of human dignity. This paper examines the central importance of human dignity, understood as not humiliating people, in traditional Jewish ethics. It employs this conception of human dignity to examine and criticize U.S. use of humiliation tactics and torture in the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Global Civil Culture: Crafting Universal Structures Of Feeling, Michael Galchinsky
Global Civil Culture: Crafting Universal Structures Of Feeling, Michael Galchinsky
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
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
Journal Articles
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 …
Redefining Torture In The Age Of Terrorism: An Argument Against The Dilution Of Human Rights, Miri Lim
Redefining Torture In The Age Of Terrorism: An Argument Against The Dilution Of Human Rights, Miri Lim
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
International Humanitarianism In The Contemporary World: Forms And Issues, David P. Forsythe
International Humanitarianism In The Contemporary World: Forms And Issues, David P. Forsythe
Human Rights & Human Welfare
© 2004 David P. Forsythe. All rights reserved.
This paper was commissioned by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the United Nations University, for a research project on multilateralism starting Fall 2004.
The paper may not be quoted or referred to in any reference without the written permission of the author. Suggested revisions are welcomed by the author via his email address. This paper may be freely circulated in electronic or hard copy provided it is not modified in any way, the rights of the author not infringed, and the paper is not quoted or cited without express permission …
Illuminating The Possible In The Developing World: Guaranteeing The Human Right To Health In India, Sheetal B. Shah
Illuminating The Possible In The Developing World: Guaranteeing The Human Right To Health In India, Sheetal B. Shah
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Note argues that the recognition of the social right to health offers a step forward in empowering individuals to gain control over their social environments in the developing world. Part II discusses the potential of social human rights to alleviate suffering in the developing world. Social human rights recognize that the state must provide individuals with the basic social conditions necessary to live with human dignity. Part III explores the legal obligations of social rights and their current status in human rights jurisprudence. It also discusses the most pressing challenges facing implementation of social rights at the national level. …
Toward Adoption Of The United States Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Lung-Chu Chen
Toward Adoption Of The United States Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Lung-Chu Chen
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child: A Policy-Oriented Overview, Lung-Chu Chen
The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child: A Policy-Oriented Overview, Lung-Chu Chen
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Prurient Interest And Human Dignity: Pornography Regulation In West Germany And The United States, Mathias Reimann
Prurient Interest And Human Dignity: Pornography Regulation In West Germany And The United States, Mathias Reimann
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article examines the regulation of pornography in West Germany and compares it to regulation in the United States. Part I provides an overview of the legal framework- constitutional and statutory-of pornography regulation in West Germany. Part II then traces the evolution of the concept of human dignity as a standard for defining pornography in West Germany, and Part III illustrates the practical impact of the idea in two widely debated recent cases. Part IV argues that West Germany's human dignity approach to pornography regulation raises important questions about how to view pornography, but that cultural and constitutional differences between …
Aging: A New Human Rights Concern--A Policy-Oriented Perspective, Lung-Chu Chen
Aging: A New Human Rights Concern--A Policy-Oriented Perspective, Lung-Chu Chen
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
The Human Rights Of The Aged: An Application Of The General Norm Of Nondiscrimination, Myers Mcdougal, Harold D. Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen
The Human Rights Of The Aged: An Application Of The General Norm Of Nondiscrimination, Myers Mcdougal, Harold D. Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Freedom From Discrimination In Choice Of Language And International Human Rights, Myres S. Mcdougal, Harold D. Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen
Freedom From Discrimination In Choice Of Language And International Human Rights, Myres S. Mcdougal, Harold D. Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Human Rights And World Public Order: A Framework For Policy-Oriented Inquiry, Myres S. Mcdougal, Harold D. Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen
Human Rights And World Public Order: A Framework For Policy-Oriented Inquiry, Myres S. Mcdougal, Harold D. Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.