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Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Perry holds a Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University, where he teaches in the law school. Previously, Perry held the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University, where he taught for fifteen years, and the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University. Perry has written on American constitutional law and theory; law, morality and religion; and human rights theory in more than sixty articles and eleven books, including The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy, The Idea of Human Rights, We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court, Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy, Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts, and Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court. Klappentext This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are entrenched in US constitutional law. The fruit of years of intellectual discipline and moral commitment, this book recasts and reevaluates American constitutional law in terms of the morality of human rights what Perry rightly terms the first truly global political morality. The book s compelling interdisciplinary insights will cause seasoned scholars to rethink their positions, while the clarity of its analysis make it suitable for those just beginning their studies. - M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame Zusammenfassung This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are entrenched in US constitutional law: the right not to be subjected to cruel! inhuman or degrading punishment; the right to moral equality; and the right to religious and moral freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Morality of Human Rights: 1. The internationalization of human rights; 2. What is a 'human right'?; 3. The normative ground of human rights; Part II. The Constitutional Morality of the United States: 4. Capital punishment; 5. The question of judicial deference; 6. The right to moral equality; 7. The right to religious and moral freedom; 8. Same-sex marriage; 9. Abortion....
