Advanced Search Results For "RESPECT for persons -- Law & legislation"

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Cornell Law Review. Jan2019, Vol. 104 Issue 2, p317-380. 64p.

Abstract: In recent years, there has been much greater legal attention paid to aspects of dignity that have previously been ignored or treated with actual hostility, especially in constitutional law and public law generally. But private law also plays an importa...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Islam & Civilisational Renewal. 2018, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p189-204. 16p.

Abstract: Human dignity depends on caring, on the solidarity between a man and another fellow human being. Among the responsibilities owed by a man towards vulnerable children, particularly orphans and abandoned children, is to protect and preserve their human d...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Georgia Law Review. 2021, Vol. 55 Issue 3, p1029-1110. 82p.

Abstract: Trade-offs between a sacred value--like human life--against a secular one--like money--are considered taboo. People are supposed to be offended by such trade-offs and to punish those who contemplate them. Yet the last decades in the United States have ...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): McGill Law Journal. Sep2020, Vol. 66 Issue 1, p85-90. 6p.

Abstract: The article considers the development of the concept of human dignity into a binding legal norm. Topics discussed include the emergence of human dignity as the cornerstone of human rights from being a moral, philosophical or religious notion, distincti...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Medical Law Review. Winter2021, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p24-47. 24p.

Abstract: There are competing accounts of dignity and no agreement about how to adjudicate between them, but this does not prevent dignity from playing an important role in the law. In fact, this very multiplicity enables dignity to perform a range of functions,...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Feminist Legal Studies. Apr2020, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p61-86. 26p.

Abstract: This survey of the Supreme Court of Canada's pivotal anti-discrimination rulings over a 30-year period assesses the extent to which the shifting nature of the grounds approach and the Court's conceptions of dignity together form part of a gendered syst...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Jul2019, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p534-541. 8p.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Juridical Tribune / Tribuna Juridica. Jun2012, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p155-161. 7p.

Abstract: The exact content of the relation between dignity and law has not been fully clarified yet. We only know that, although it has been used since antiquity, the notion entered international legislation and national constitutions only after WWII. Since the...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Estudios de Derecho. 2012, Vol. 69 Issue 153, p113-145. 33p.

Abstract: El sentido de respeto hacia la persona humana y su dignidad ha adquirido especial relevancia en los últimos años, más concretamente, desde el desarrollo del Constitucionalismo Post Guerra, a partir del cual se empezó a gestar la historia del reconocimi...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Jurisprudencija. 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 119, p147-164. 18p.

Abstract: Žmogaus teisės kyla iš bendruomeninių vertybių, todėl jos ir dabartiniu metu jų plėtra negali būti tik konkrečios bendruomenės vertybių pagrindas. Kintant visuomenės interesams, kyla naujos grėsmės toms pačioms vertybėms, o siekiant efektyviai jas neut...