| Human Dignity and Law: Legal and Philosophical Investigations Subjects: Humanities; Law; Philosophy; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; International Law - Law; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Socio-Legal Studies; Ethics Philosophy; Philosophy of Law; Political Philosophy; Comparative Law; Ethics - Jurisprudence; Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law; This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another. Law must be understood as limited by the demands made by human dignity. Conversely, human dignity cannot be properly understood without clarifying its interaction with legal institutions and legal practices. This is not, then, a survey of the uses of human dignity in law; it is a rethinking of human dignity in relation to our principles of social governance. The result is a revisionist account of human dignity and law, one focused less on the use of human dignity in our regulations and more on its constitutive implications for the governance of the public realm. Dr Stephen Riley is a lecturer in the Law School of the University of Leicester, UK. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at Utrecht University. |