Multidimensional Origins of Biolaw and Bioethics and their Impact on Conceptions of Human Rights and Human Dignity

A European Perspective

Essai Scientifique , 2011 , 14 Pages

Droit - Philosophie, Sociologie et Histoire du Droit

Biolaw is a new legal discipline. Still closely related to the fundamentals on which law is built, such as philosophy, biolaw has evolved into a truly legal discipline. At the same time has it been recognized that biolaw has multiple sources and the recent emergence of the discipline makes these sources still relatively visible. This visibility might limit the acceptance of biolaw and in this article it will be attempted to pay attention to some of the issues which follow from the fact that biolaw is based on multiple sources. Particular attention will be given to one aspect which might be most controversial from a political perspective: the continued role of religion — and in particular Christian religion — in shaping thinking about biolaw also in secular societies.

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Religious values in contemporary Europe
1. The Role of Faith in Law-Making and the continuing Culture War
2. Biolaw and Bioethics

III. Right to Life

IV. Why Religion can matter for Legal Discourse

V. Concluding remarks

• Auteur: Dr. Stefan Kirchner (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2011
• Pages: 14
• N° de catalogue: V294897
• ISBN (ebook): 9783656927716
• ISBN (Livre): 9783656927723
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: Biolaw, Christianity, Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Catholicism, Bioethics