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The Right To Dignity, Rex Glensy

Rex Glensy

What is “the right to dignity”? Even though the role of human dignity within the framework of legal rules has attracted scholarly attention for some time, it is only relatively recently that courts in the U.S. have shown a similar interest in exploring the existence and extent of dignity rights. Unfortunately, these judicial legal pronouncements that have explicitly or implicitly evoked the idea of a right to dignity have done so in an ad hoc manner and have not explained what the contours of such dignity rights should be. This Article presents four possibilities of what U.S. courts should be …