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de Brito | Herdy | Damele | Moniz Lopes | Silva Sampaio

The Role of Legal Argumentation and Human Dignity in Constitutional Courts

Proceedings of the Special Workshops Held at the 28th WorldCongress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Lisbon, 2017
ARSP Beiheft 157
Nomos,  2019, 240 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-5722-0

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englischThe legal argumentation of constitutional courts, for instance on human dignity has been in the centre of interest both from a theoretical and practical perspective. This book addresses the role of legal argumentation at first in general, covering empirical and comparative perspectives on constitutional argumentative practices. It also comprises a comparative assessment of constitutional argumentation versus argumentation deployed by other courts as well as by decision-makers. Secondly, the book focuses on how constitutional courts reason with human dignity. This concept takes many different shapes, though very rarely in an objective fashion. It is embedded in several western constitutions, although constitutional courts and scholars tend to disagree on its meaning and content. Finally, the book aims to shed light on the controversial topic of human dignity from a normative and philosophical perspective.