Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
Chapter 7
From the opening paragraphs, "The claim that I aim to present and defend in this Special Report is that the thin intellectual foundations of human rights law require us to turn to more elemental aspects of human experience in order to test and evaluate the persuasiveness of human rights’ claim to correspond to universal human needs and desires."
This essay was previously published as Heritage Foundation Special Report No. 239 on December 31, 2020.
Publisher: Heritage Foundation
Recommended Citation
Carozza, Paolo G. and Sednak, Clemens, "Human Diginity and the Foundations of Human Rights" (2021). Book Chapters. 2.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/book_chapters/2
Publication Information
in First Principles on Human Rights 107–118 (Emilie Kao & Brett Schaefer eds., 2021).