286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human dignity and their translation into legal rights.
The book takes on a three part structure.... Read more
Introduction Part I Whose Identity and What Rights? 1. The Identity of the Person in Human Rights Law 2. The Universal and Equal Quality of Our Individual Identities? Part II Protecting our Fixed Core Identity? 3. Souls, Sex and Brains 4. Biology and Blood 5. Culture, Ethnicity and Religion: Permitted Expressions of Identity? Part III Empowering and Enabling Our Identities to Exist 6. What Free Expression of Identity? 7. Safety, Love and Care in Creating Identity Conclusion: Socially Formed and Self Determining Identity
Biography
Jill Marshall is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Leicester, UK.
