Human Dignity Rights

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Elective Course Enrollment Limit: 20 One Week Course- February 10-14, 2020 Registration will open November 7, 2019 Course Requirement: take-home exam This class will cover selected topics in the emerging area of human dignity rights under law as practiced and evolving in constitutional courts throughout the world. Human dignity encapsulates the notion that every person has equal worth. This simple but profound concept has two elements. First, each person ? every member of the human family ? has value; no one can be dismissed, ignored, mistreated, or abused as if their humanity means nothing. Dignity means that each person?s humanity means something and has worth. Each person has a right to live as if his or her life matters and to be treated ?as a person.? And second, each person?s worth is equal to every other person?s. No one?s life is more important than any other person?s. If each person?s right to agency, to self-development, to choose one?s life course is the same as every other?s, then no one can determine another person?s choices, treat another as an object, or treat a person as if his or her life does not matter. Despite our differences, in our humanity, we are all equal. It is in dignity that we are united.