Honouring the Capacity for Choice

Denise Réaume, Dignity, Choice, and Circumstances, in Understanding Human Dignity 33 (Christopher McCrudden, ed., Oxford University Press, 2013).

Kim Brooks

Denise Réaume is Canada’s foremost legal theorist on the concept of dignity. She has committed much of her scholarly work to elucidating its contours and teasing out its complexities. One of my favourite of her earlier pieces is “Indignities: Making a Place for Dignity in Modern Legal Thought”. In that piece, Réaume deduces a distinct dignity interest warranting legal protection in the […]