Outline
Chapter 1. Methodological credentials of human dignity in the law
Chapter 2. Philosophy: The personalist conception of human action and affirmation proper to persons
Chapter 3. Law: The status of personhood and the dignitarian moment
Chapter 4. Politics: Institutions and the status of personhood
Conclusion
Biography
Michał Rupniewski is Assistant Professor (adiunkt) at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Political and Legal Doctrines, Poland. He is Associate at the Alexis de Tocqueville Centre for Political and Legal Thought, Poland. Professor Rupniewski has participated in courses and stipends at the universities of Bonn, Strasbourg, and Fordham. He served as guest lecturer at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. His chief scholarly interest is political philosophy’s influence on legal interpretation and legislation. In particular, he specialises in political liberalism, personalism, human dignity and law, as well as in theory of legal change.
