Postgraduate Module Descriptor


LAWM145: Dignity, Democracy and the Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

A Barak, Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right (CUP, 2015)

P Becchi and K Mathis (eds), Handbook of Human Dignity in Europe (Springer, 2019)

D Bedford, C Dupré, G Halmai and P Kapotas (eds), Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe: Identity, Citizenship and Solidarity (E Elgar, 2021)

E Daly, Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions and the Worth of the Human Person (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)

E Daly and J May, Advanced Introduction to Human Dignity (E Elgar, 2020)

C Dupré, Importing the Law in Post-Communist Transitions, The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity  (Hart, 2003)

C Dupré, The Age of Dignity: Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Europe (Hart, 2015)

M Düwell et al (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity (CUP, 2014)

D Grimm, A Kemmerer and C Möllers (eds), Human Dignity in Context (Nomos/Hart, 2018)

G Kateb Human Dignity (Harvard University Press, 2011)

C McCrudden (ed), Understanding Dignity (OUP 2013)