Human Dignity and the Law: A Personalist Theory

This book reassesses the relationship between human dignity, law, and specifically the ‘personalist’ school of agency.

The work argues that a specific way of appreciating dignity is contained in how law understands the person, and so can be used to improve upon how we explain and interpret the law. Despite considerable differences between jurisdictions as regards human dignity in application, it is argued that the particular weight of human persons is the widely shared focal point. The centr...