ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF DIGNITY IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
14 Colum. J. Eur. L. 201 (2008) Neomi Rao. Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law. Human dignity has developed into a core value of modern constitutionalism. In the United States, the Supreme Court has referred to human dignity only sporadically, but several justices and a number of scholars have advocated using the concept of human dignity to modernize American constitutional law and to keep in step with the international community. I argue in this Article that acceptance of the modern, largely European conception of human dignity would weaken American constitutional protections for individual rights. Human dignity […]