Dimensions of Dignity - The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law

Offers a public law theory that elaborates the idea of human dignity to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice.

List of contents

1. Human dignity and public law; Part I. The Normative Dimension: 2. Authority, justice, and public law; 3. Public authority and private violence; 4. Towards public justice; Part II. The Constitutional Dimension: 5. The modern constitutional state; Part III. The Doctrinal Dimension; 6. Constitutional reform; 7. The moral structure of proportionality; Conclusion: public law in postwar theory and practice.

About the author

Jacob Weinrib is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University, Ontario. His research interests include legal theory and comparative public law.

Summary

Jacob Weinrib's theory of public law elaborates on the idea of human dignity in order to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice, including rights-based judicial review and proportionality. It will be of interest to legal, political and constitutional theorists, constitutional lawyers and judges, and scholars of comparative constitutional law.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Weinrib, Jacob (New York University) Weinrib, Weinrib Jacob
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107446243
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44624-3
• No. of pages: 315
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut; Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Constitutional, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general