Comments on the approach to human dignity in case law

Title:

Comments on the approach to human dignity in case law

Creator:

Helena Hofmannová

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:d52ee96f-2892-456e-8d0c-97ca94bf0870
uuid:d52ee96f-2892-456e-8d0c-97ca94bf0870
issn:1805-8396

Subject:

lidská důstojnost, human dignity, inhuman, judicial interpretation, hard cases, minimal core of human dignity, ethical consensus, legal concept of human dignity, prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, prohibition of capital punishment, basi, 16, and 34

Type:

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Description:

The article ‘Comments on the approach to human dignity in case law’ deals with some approaches to the interpretation of human dignity by international and constitutional courts including Czech Constitutional Court. It is the wide-ranging and extensive use of human dignity that certainly is a success of the post-war concept of human dignity as a basis for the protection of rights. On the other hand, the universal applicability of human dignity and it being ambivalently used is criticised for leading to vagueness and relativisation of the basic concept of dignity. However, given that the post-war conception is based on human dignity being the grounds for the human rights granted to all people, the universality of human dignity and its extensive use are the typical attributes thereof. The article describes fields of judicial interpretation of human dignity expressing diverse worlds of constitutional values., Helena Hofmannová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

The lawyer quarterly: international journal for legal research | 2018 Volume:8 | Number:3

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