Human Rights and Human Nature (eBook)

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Autor: Marion (Hrsg.) Albers

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ISBN: 978-94-017-8672-0

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This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights. Can the concept of human nature provide a basis for understanding fundamental rights? Is it plausible to justify the claim to universal validity of human rights by reference to human nature? Or does the idea of human rights in its modern, post-1945 manifestation go, in essence, beyond human nature? The essays in this volume introduce naturalistic positions and their concomitant critiques. They address the role that human nature both actually does and potentially may play in forming a foundation for and acting as an exemplification of fundamental rights. Beyond that, they give attention to the challenges caused by Life Sciences. Human nature itself is subject to transformation and transgression in an unprecedented manner. The essays reflect on issues such as reproduction, species manipulation, corporeal autonomy, and enhancement. Contributors are jurists, philosophers, and political scientists from Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Poland, and Japan.

Autor	Albers, Marion (Hrsg.) / Hoffmann, Thomas (Hrsg.) / Reinhardt, Jörn (Hrsg.)
Verlag	Springer Netherlands
Einband	PDF
Erscheinungsjahr	2014
Seitenangabe	274 S.
Ausgabekennzeichen	Englisch
Abbildungen	VI, 274 p.
Auflage	2014

Über den Autor Marion (Hrsg.) Albers

Marion Albers studied law, sociology and political sciences. She is Full Professor at Hamburg University Faculty of Law as well as Managing Director of the faculty's Cyber Law Clinic and of the Hamburg Center for Bio-Governance. She has been Visiting Scholar at Chicago-Kent College of Law (2008/2009), Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study (2014) and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (2017/18). She has given lectures, seminars and presentations in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Poland, the Netherlands, South Korea (SNU), Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the USA. Her publications and research interests include human rights, communication and information law, data protection, law of police and intelligence agencies, biolaw and legal theory. Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet studied law and received his Juris Doctor in Munich, Germany. He is Full Professor at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (PUCRS), and has been Head of the graduation program (Master and Doctorate) in Law since 2006. He was Visiting Researcher as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law in Munich (2001-02-03), Stellenbosh Institute for Advanced Studies (2011), Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg, Germany (2017), and Visiting Scholar and Professor in Lisbon (Erasmus Mundus Programm) in 2009. He has spoken at conferences and held classes in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, México, USA (Harvard Law School, Georgetown, Baltimore and Princeton), Germany, Spain (Sevilha, Granada, Madrid), Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria. His publications and research fields include constitutional and fundamental rights theory, human dignity, constitutional environmental law, fundamental rights in the information society and social rights.