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Dignity in Judgment: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective

by Andrea Pin
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780198922438
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK)
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  • Pages: 302
  • Original Price: USD 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 599 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Constitutional

Dignity is a complex philosophical, theological, and constitutional concept. Courts have often progressively distanced the notion of dignity in constitutional law from its religious connotation to emphasize individual autonomy and self-determination. This process has made the notion of dignity less ambiguous, but narrower and more controversial.

Dignity in Judgment: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective compares how the apex courts of Canada, Colombia, Egypt, the EU, and Israel operationalize the concept of dignity in their case law. While these countries share an Abrahamic faith and secularization tendencies, these legal systems host a plurality of societal values, and their courts have the reputation of having an activist approach to adjudication. This book offers an in depth-analysis of key decisions that reflect or use the concept of dignity, including capital punishment, antiterrorism measures, biotechnologies, and same-sex relations to build a model of human dignity that facilitates mutual understandings among and within legal traditions. It shows how religious and secular understandings of dignity have shaped its interpretation through the decades.

Insightful and thought-provoking, Dignity in Judgment explores the concept of dignity as it appears in the law by uncovering its character across different legal cultures and religious contexts.

Andrea Pin, Full Professor of Comparative Law, University of Padova

Andrea Pin is a Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Padua, Italy. He is a senior fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University (USA), where he is also McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow for the term 2024-2029. A visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, he has taught at the Universities of Bar-Ilan and Herzliya (Israel); Emory and Notre Dame (USA); Lomonosov-Moscow (Russia). His works have appeared in American, British, French, German, Italian, and Spanish academic journals.

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