Everyone’s learning about dignity rights!

We can’t keep up! There are more than 100 English-language books published just in 2024 with the word “dignity” in the title!

We offer a partial bibliography, including only those titles from the past few years that seem most relevant to our work and your interests.

Personal and professional experiences

  • Joni J. Seith, The Pain of Grace: Living and Suffering with Dignity (2024);

    Donna Shin-Ward, My Mystical Path: A Memoir of Finding Grace and Dignity in Life’s Hardest Lessons (2023);

    Martine Le Corre, Mine Are My Strength (2023);

    Varoujan Der Simonian and Sophia Mekhitarian, The Dignity of Being Armenian (2023);

    Heike Thieme, Company in the Moon: Dignity—Trust—Wonder (2022);

    J. N. Blackwood, Dignity: A True Story (2022);

    Yonah ʻImanu’el and Shmuel Emanuel, Dignity to Survive: One Family’s Story of Faith in the Holocaust (2022);

    Terri Pease, Love, Dignity & Parkinson’s: From Care Partner to Caregiver (2022).

  • DesMaeve O’Rourke, Human Rights and the Care of Older People: Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Anti-torture Norm (2024);

    Gilles Berrut, Aging with Dignity: The Obvious Challenge (2022).

  • Jonathan Denis, Dying with Dignity: Advocacy for the Last of Freedoms (2024);

    Emmanuel Hirsch, Duty to Die, Dignified and Free (2023);

    Sylvia Poss, Towards Death with Dignity: Caring for Dying People (2022);

    Derya Nur Kayacan, The Right to Die with Dignity: How Far Do Human Rights Extend? (2022);

    Sean Davison, The Price of Mercy: A Fight for Your Right to Die with Dignity (2022);

    Alison Clay-Duboff, Living with Veracity, Dying with Dignity (2022);

    Laure Delarche, Dying with Dignity: A Qualitative Study on the Opinions of Home Care Actors in Lot-et-Garonne (2021);

    Gilles Pornin, Robert William Hig- gins, Jacques Ricot, Patrick Baudry, and Elisabeth Maillaud, The Dying: The Status of the Dying, the Dignity of the Dying, the Place of the Dying (2020);

    Jean Liberté, Manifesto for a Right to Painless Suicide: A Pro-Choice Essay on Human Dignity (2019);

    Jeffrey A. Brauch, “Preserving True Human Dignity in Human Rights Law,” Capital University Law Review 50 (2022): 115;

    Nathan T. Levy, “Death with Dignity: Terminally Ill(inois),” Southern Illinois University Law Journal 46 (2022): 321;

    Maeve O’Rourke, Human Rights and the Care of Older People: Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Anti- torture Norm (2024).

  • John Mulama, Trust, Transparency, and Dignity: A blockchain-anchored system for informal domestic work (2026). The paper studies informal domestic work through the Trust-Dignity Matrix. It explains dignity as inextricably linked to the verifiability of labor and the consistency of remuneration.

    Ryder, John F, System (HVES): Protecting Dignity in Post-Labour Societies (2026). This paper introduces the Human Value and Meaning System (HVES), a non-market valuation framework designed to protect human dignity, meaning, and moral standing from economic and algorithmic misclassification in post-labour societies. HVES functions as a stabilising layer rather than a productive system, ensuring that dignity is unconditional and not contingent on output participation, or behavioural compliance.

    Julia Boghirnea, Sociological and Legal Aspects of The Concept of “Human Dignity” in Employment Relations (2025). The article argues that dignity at work is achieved through the employee’s desire to be proud of the work they do every day, but also by opposing possible abuses by the employer, through acts of resistance. The author proposes that the concept of dignity at work be explicitly defined and incorporated in Romanian legislation to strengthen its normative clarity and social application.

    Elena C. Savu, The Principle of Dignity in The New Convention for The Protection of Professional Lawyers (2025). The paper argues that the Convention protects the dignity of lawyers in order to protect the dignity of individuals before the law. The dignity of lawyers is not only an individual right, but also a systemic guarantee because an intimidated lawyer means a vulnerable litigant, a denigrated lawyer leads to a flawed trial and a lawyer treated without dignity is a failure of the rule of law.

    Christa Teston, Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care (2024);

    Cait Lamberton, Neela A. Saldanha, and Tom Wein, Marketplace Dignity: Transforming How We Engage with Customers across Their Journey (2024) [customer care];

    Peter Becker, Leading with Heart: How You as a Versatile Leader Can Successfully Lead with Dignity, Values, and Trust in a Digital Working World 4.0 (2024);

    Jérôme Kouadio, Dignity of the Human Cadaver in a Medico-Legal Context During CoViD-19 (2023) [funeral services];

    Harvey Max Chochinov, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Healthcare (2023);

    Myriam Sylvie Ambomo, Nursing Practice and Human Dignity (2022);

    Eoin Ó Broin and Mal McCann, Dignity of Everyday Life: Celebrating Michael Scott’s Busáras (2022) [architecture];

    Angie Freese, Meant for More: Real Talk about Classrooms Built on Dignity, Authenticity, and Connection (2023) [overcoming educational inequity];

    Tamar Ketko, Hana Bor, and Khalid Arar, Enhancing Values of Dignity, Democracy, and Diversity in Higher Education: Comparative Insights for Challenging Times (2022) [education];

    Decoteau J. Irby, Charity Anderson, and Charles M. Payn, Dignity- Affirming Education: Cultivating the Somebodiness of Students and Educators (2022);

    Ann P. Turnbull, Michael L. Wehmeyer, Karrie Ann Shogren, Meghan M. Burke, and H. Rutherford Turnbull, Ex- ceptional Lives: Practice, Progress, & Dignity in Today’s Schools (2024);

    Jana Costas, Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin (2022) [office cleaners];

    Zeynep Ton, Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay & Meaning to Everyone’s Work (2022);

    Tom G. Palmer and Matt Warner, Development with Dignity: Self-Determination, Localization, and the End to Poverty (2022) [development work];

    Paolo G. Carozza, The Practice of Human Development and Dignity (2020);

    Stewart Cunningham,Sex Work and Human Dignity: Law, Politics, and Discourse (2022);

    Harvey Max Chochinov, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Med- icine (2022);

    Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Adam D. Reich, Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers (2022);

    Stephen G. Post and Jade C. Angelica, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (2022);

    Gladys Trézenem, Human Dignity and the Administrative Judge (2021);

    Léon Germe, On Dignity and Quackery in Medicine (2021);

    Fatié Ouattara, Educating Is Humanizing: Dignity, Integrity, Secularity, and Violence (2020) [education];

    Erynn Masi de Casanova, Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador (2019);

    Frank M. McClellan, Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters (2019);

    Vincent Gay, For Dignity: Immigrant Workers and Social Conflicts in the 1980s (2021);

    Baowendsida Noël Nana, Diplomacy in Service of Human Dignity (2020);

    Mark Erlich, The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work (2023);

    Ludmila N. Praslova, The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work (2024) [building neurodiverse workplaces].

  • Thirza Andriessen, Caring for dignity in food assistance: navigating norms and moralities (2026). The dissertation advances a relational and situated understanding of dignity in charitable food assistance, showing that dignity is not inherent to any particular aid model but is enacted and negotiated through everyday practices, social norms, and moral tensions. The research foregrounds dignity as enacted through relationships, institutional practices, and socio-political structures, and offers care-oriented guidelines for providing food assistance. m description

  • Cheryl L. Morgan and Brian Keys, Dignity of Risk in Inclusive Postsecondary Education Programs, (2026). The article argues for the concept “Dignity of Risk” for disabled students in postsecondary education. People with disabilities deserve the same right to make choices — and to face both success and failures — as anyone else. Risk taking is part of dignity because it allows people to reach adulthood.

    Giedrė Pauriené, Teodoras Paura, Student evaluation culture on academic dignity: ethical challenges in the context of globalization, (2025). The article uses the argument that dignity is “inseparable from an individual’s ability to act according to their vocation and professional standards” to examine how evaluation practices affect lecturers’ dignity and reputation while identifying the ethical criteria that reinforce respect within the academic community.

Broader themes

  • Cristina Mihai, Contemporary Axiological Approaches to Tolerant Communication in an Intercultural Context (2026). The paper studies tolerant communication in an intercultural context through different lenses, including human dignity, which it defines as engaging in a second person relationship based on moral reciprocity.

    Hyungjoon Jun & Hyun Jung Lee, Anticipatory Dignity and Digital Meritocracy: Philosophical Reflections on the Algorithmic Transformation of South Korea’s Education System (2026). The article introduces the concept of “anticipatory dignity” as the right to maintain cognitive openness against premature algorithmic classification. It argues that it is as a necessary extension of human dignity discourse into the temporal dimension of educational justice.

    Aurica Buzenco, Current Dimensions of Affirming National Dignity in a Pluricultural Context (2026): The article defines national dignity as a community’s capacity to value its own identity, to affirm continuity, and to maintain cohesion within a space shaped by cultural diversity. It emphasizes national dignity as an open, relational, and dynamic process, achieved through valuing one’s own identity in interaction with other cultures.

    Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, Current challenges of human authenticity: a jonasian perspective, (2026). The article aims to argue for the extension of the traditional notion of “dignity” to “authenticity”. The aim is to remind humans of their essential relation to earthly life, and also of their duty to respect its dignity and preserve its richness. In the final section, the article explores some ethical, political and educational implications of this duty.

    Mokphi Chikh, Discourse on Universalism and Human Dignity: The Enlightened Individual (2024)

    Michael Wainwright, Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright (2024)

    Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Sustainable History and Human Dignity: A Neurophilosophy of History and the Future of Civilisation (2022)

    Jan-Willem van der Rijt and Adam Steven Cureton, Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications (2022)

    Suzy Killmister, Contours of Dignity (2020)

    Jean Claude Bisimwa, Respect as the Foundation of a Sustainable Society: Humanity in Me, Humanity in Others (2019)

    Richard Berquist, From Human Dignity to Natural Law: An Introduction (2019)

    Stephan Leher, Dignity and Human Rights: Language, Philosophy, and Social Realizations (2018)

    John Douglas Macready, Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity (2018)

    Austin Sarat, Antonio Pele, and Stephen Riley, Human Dignity (2022)

    Anthony Ekanem, Living with Dignity: How to Treat People as You Would Like Them to Treat You (2022)

    Andani Thakhathi, Transcendent Development: The Ethics of Universal Dignity (2022)

    Michał Rupniewski, Human Dignity and the Law: A Personalist Theory (2022)

    Marco Ettore Grasso, The Ontological Maze: Ethics, Dignity, and the Critical Essences of Identity and Sustainability (2024)

  • Ekpenyong, Edom Itam, Asuquo, Patrick Nyong, Etorti, and Imoke John, Social Dignity Concerns on Nutritional Choices Among Civil Servants in Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross River State, Nigeria (2026). The article focuses on the influence of dignity on everyday lifestyle decisions (dietary choices), arguing that food choices are also expressions of identity, social belonging, and personal values. The study concludes that dignity-related considerations are central to understanding workplace dietary behaviors and recommends the integration of dignity sensitive, culturally inclusive, and gender-responsive strategies into workplace nutrition policies and interventions.

    Rudolph Nyamudo, Moral duties towards future generations: An Ubuntu appraisal (2025). This paper uses Ubuntu (South African ethics) to show that future generations have dignity because they belong to the community, and they influence communal activities.

    Léon Sann, The Shoah and the Limits of Dignity: A Study at the Intersection of Decency and Incarnation (2024)

    Marie Augier, Christophe Badel, and Jean-Luc Bastien, Honor and Dignity in the Ancient World (2023)

    Giovanni Ercolani and Chris Farrands, The Maidan Museum: Art, Identity, and the Revolution of Dignity (2023)

    Kalman Mizsei, Eight Years after the Revolution of Dignity: What Has Changed in Ukraine during 2013–2021 (2022)

    Florian Weigand, Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan (2022)

    Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue between Law and Culture (2022)

    Christopher Courtheyn, Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia (2022)

    Hélène Becquet and Bettina Frederking, The Dignity of Kings: Perspectives on Royalty in France in the Early 19th Century (2019)

    Miguel Pérez, The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile (2022)

    Zaynab El Bernoussi, Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings (2021).

    Christa Bruhn, Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Pales- tine: A Memoir (2023).

  • Catherine Dupré, Hungary's attacks on human dignity: Article 2 TEU and the foundations of democracy in the European Union. Eur Law J. 2024; 30(3): 260-283. doi:10.1111/eulj.12526

    Mario Krešić, Damir Banović, Alberto Carrio Sampedro, and J. Pleps, Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity: Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans (2022);

    Daniel Bedford, Catherine Dupré, Gábor Halmai, and Panos Kapotas, Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe: Synergies, Tensions and Crises (2022).

  • Armin Tadayon, Dignity by Design: a Human-Centered Framework for Ethical AI (2026). The article proposes dignity as a guiding principle for designing, developing, and deploying AI technology. It argues that current incentive structures of technological companies erode human dignity, and shows how companies can embed human dignity in their designs.

    Faiza Putri Yuliastri Uri and all, Basic genetic engineering techniques involved in human cloning : a narrative review (2025). One of the arguments the paper makes is that human cloning is a potential threat to dignity because it risks shifting the intrinsic value of humans and blurring the line between dignified subjects and technological objects, thus affecting how society values life and human rights.

    Florina R. Duminica, Human dignity and biomedecine. From the case law of the European court of human rights (2025). The article analyses court rulings to argue that despite its conceptual ambiguity, human dignity functions as a guiding principle that guarantees that biomedical progress remains anchored in fundamental human values. It shows that its flexibility allows the European Court of Human Rights to respond to a wide range of situations in which man may be placed, adapting the application of the Convention to the ever-changing realities of science and society.

    Michael Casey and Frank H. McCourt, Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age (2024);

    Marcello Ienca, Oreste Pollicino, and Laura Liguori, The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Human Rights (2022);

    Dan Saxon, Fighting Machines: Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity (2022);

    Danielle Keats Citron, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022);

    Ro Khanna, Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us (2022);

    Brigitte Feuillet-Liger and Kristina Orfali, eds., The Reality of Human Dignity in Law and Bioethics: Compar- ative Perspectives (2018);

    Virginia Kozemczak, “Dignity, Freedom, and Digital Rights: Comparing American and European Approaches to Privacy,” Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review 4 (2021): 1069;

    Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, Creating Unique Copies: Human Reproductive Cloning, Uniqueness, and Dignity (2023).

  • Bogdan Ionuț Cozgarea, Access to justice and human dignity: a special focus on appeals in public procurement law, (2025). This study examines the relationship between the right of access to a court in the field of public procurement and the right to human dignity. It argues that access to justice means respect for the right to human dignity, because this intrinsic fundamental value of the person means, among other things, the recognition of the equal worth of each individual, and access to justice is the mechanism that guarantees that this value does not remain merely theoretical.

    David Buckham, Robyn Wilkinson, and Christiaan Straeuli, The Age of Menace: Capitalism, Inequality & the Battle for Dignity (2022);

    Hugues Puel, Paths of Humanism: Building Dignity; Undertaking Innovations (2019);

    Chrystin Ondersma, Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice (2024) [focusing on personal debt in America].

  • Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Vasatika Saraswat and Mohammed Haris, Migration with Dignity or Statelessness by Design?: A Closer look at the curious case of Kiribati, (2026). The paper explores the risks of Kiribati’s government concept of “migration with dignity” as a response to climate change. The proposal included a proactive strategy of purchasing land abroad, notably in Fiji, to relocate Kiribati’s population while preserving national identity and autonomy. However, this approach is fraught with legal, economic, and political challenges.

    Emmanuelle Gindre, The Dignity of Detained Persons in Overseas Prisons (2023)

Dignity in law

  • Daniel Haefke, The Politics of Constitutional Dignity Jurisprudence (2024)

    Brett G. Scharffs, Andrea Pin, D. Vovk, and M. V. Antonov, Human Dignity, Judicial Reasoning, and the Law: Comparative Perspectives on a Key Constitutional Concept (2024)

    Rachel Bayefsky, Dignity and Judicial Authority (2024)

    Erin Daly, Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions and the Worth of the Human Person (2020)

    Erin Daly and James R. May, Dignity Law: Recognition, Cases and Perspectives (2020)

    James R. May and Erin Daly, Advanced Introduction to Dignity and Law (2020)

  • Selene Islas-Calderón, Mario Vázquez Maguirre, Indigenous Tourism Enterprises and Dignity-Centered Organizing: Opportunities for Human Flourishing, (2026). The article asks and responds to the question “How does a dignity centered organization contribute to resolving long-standing injustices and overcoming barriers to well-being in Indigenous tourism enterprises?”

    Vlad Neagoe, Human Dignity as a principle of interpretation of European Union law (2025). The paper argues against a positivist-normative perspective of human dignity. Instead, it argues that human dignity should be valued as a principle of interpretation. It arrives at a definition of human dignity where human dignity remains the point of balance between freedom and responsibility, between the universalism of European values and the cultural diversity of the Member State.

    Dragomir Andreea-Nicoleta, et al., Post-Mortem Justice: Human Dignity and Legal Protections in the European Union (2025). The article asks whether human dignity can meaningfully be understood as a value that outlives death and whether the European legal order is capable of articulating coherent norms in this regard. It argues that the continuation of dignity after death is not presented as a formal right, but as a functional principle expressed through the rights of the living, and positions “post-mortem justice” as an emerging doctrinal field at the intersection of human rights, forensic practice and digital governance.

    Aniceto Masferrer, The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition: A Retrospective Analysis (2024)

    Ervin Laszlo and Glen T. Martin, Human Dignity and World Order: The Holistic Foundations of Global Democracy (2024)

    Boris Barraud, Dignity, Freedom, Equality: Practice of Human Rights (2022)

    Pablo Gilabert, Human Dignity and Human Rights (2019) and Human Dignity and Social Justice (2023)

    Brett G. Scharffs and Ewelina U. Ochab, Dignity and International Human Rights Law: An Introduction to the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere (2022)

    J. M. Aroso Linhares, Human Dignity and the Autonomy of Law (2022)

    Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. and Irene Hadiprayitno, eds., Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (2022)

    Mary V. Alfred, Petra A. Robinson, and Elizabeth A. Roumell, eds., Advancing the Global Agenda for Human Rights, Vulnerable Populations, and Environmental Sustainability (2021)

    Andrea Gattini, Rosana Garciandia, and Philippa Webb, eds., Human Dignity and International Law (2021)

    Ginevra Le Moli, Human Dignity in International Law (2021)

    Angus J. L. Menuge, The Inherence of Human Dignity: Foundations of Human Dignity, Volume 1 and Law and Religious Liberty, Volume 2 (2021)

    Zhibin Xie, Pauline Kollontai, and Sebastian Kim., eds., Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice: A Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Global Perspective (2020)

    Hoda Mahmoudi, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights (2019)

    Matthew McManus, Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law: A Critical Legal Argument (2019)

    Amós Nascimento and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, eds., Human Dignity: Perspectives from a Critical Theory of Human Rights (2018)

    Elaine Webster, Dignity, Degrading Treatment and Torture in Human Rights Law: The Ends of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (2018)

    David Hollenbach, “A Relational Understanding of Human Rights: Human Dignity in Social Solidarity,” Emory Law Journal 71 (2022): 1487

  • Neeraj Kumar Jaiswal, The moral machine and the rule of law: reclaiming human dignity in the penal code (2026). The article argues that dignity functions as the normative hinge that connects legality, accountability, and justice. It insists that technological efficiency cannot be allowed to eclipse the normative core of criminal law. The article proposes a dignity-centered framework for regulating artificial intelligence within criminal codes, ensuring that technological innovation remains subordinate to human values, democratic accountability, and global justice

    Sylvain Niquège, The Dispute over the Dignity of Detention Conditions (2023)

    Erin Daly, Dignity in the Criminal Legal System: A Policy Guide for Advocacy and Reform (2024)

    Judge Victoria Pratt, The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities (2022)

    James Park Taylor, “Through a Glass Darkly: Cruel & Unusual Punishment Clause Examined through the Lens of the Right to Dignity,” Montana Law Review 46 (2021)

    James Park Taylor, “Intersection of Hybrid Rights: Dignity and Protection against Excessive Punishment,” Montana Law Review 46 (2021)

    Ben A. McJunkin, “Ensuring Dignity as Public Safety,” American Criminal Law Review 59 (2022): 1643

    Victoria Pratt, “Why Dignity and Respect Matter in Our Courts,” Litigation 48 (2022): 27

  • Okewu Michael Peter, Human Dignity, Social Inequality, and The Capability Approach in Amartya Sen’s Philosophy (2025). This article examines the complex relationship between human dignity and social inequality through the lens of Amartya Sen’s capability approach. By situating dignity implicitly within capabilities and freedoms, Sen’s account of dignity and equality demonstrates how normative claims about justice can be grounded in both the moral worth of persons and the practical opportunities available to them.

    Gender

    Ann Cartwright, Dignity of Labour? A Study of Childbearing and Induction [originally published in 1979, republished in 2024]

    Myanda Klaark, F . . . like Human (2022); Lilian Chudey Pride, Dignity of Womanhood (2022)

    Alice Gerlach, Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention (2022)

    Anna High, “Sexual Dignity and Rape Law,” Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 33 (2022): 1

    Andrew S. Park, “Respecting LGBTQ Dignity through Vital Capabilities,” Journal of Gender Race & Justice 24 (2021): 271

    Celeste Mergens, The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women’s Equity (2023)

    Marcy L. Karin, Margaret E. Johnson, and Elizabeth B. Cooper, “Menstrual Dignity and the Bar Exam,” UC Davis Law Review 55 (2021): 1

    Elizabeth B. Cooper, “What’s Law Got to Do with It? Dignity and Menstruation,” Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 41 (2021): 39

    Amy Fettig, “Menstrual Equity, Organizing, and the Struggle for Human Dignity and Gender Equality in Prison,” Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 41 (2021): 76

    Race and ethnicity

    Danielle Z. Boles, Towards Dignity in Health: From Health-White Associations to the Recla- mation of Racial-Ethnic Minority Cultures of Health (2023)

    Marta Padovan-Ozdemir and Trine Oland, Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees: Troubled by Difference, Docility and Dignity (2022)

    Madhulina Bandyopadhyay, Yes to Dignity: A Journey to Un-slavery through the Dirty White Ceiling of Federal Reserve (2022)

    Vincent W. Lloyd, Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination (2022)

    Norman Ajari, Dignity or Death: Ethics and Politics of Race (2019)

    Muriel Cuissard, Clothing in the Hip-Hop Movement: Empowerment and Dignity (2019)

    Bill Piatt, “Respecting the Identity and Dignity of All Indigenous Americans,” Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review 6 (2021–2022): 83

    Cody Uyeda, “Mountains, Telescopes, and Broken Promises: The Dignity Taking of Ha’waii’s Ceded Lands,” Asian American Law Journal 28 (2021): 65

    John Felipe Acevedo, “Reclaiming Black Dignity,” Texas Law Review Online 99 (2020–2021): 1

    Disability

    Amelia V. Gheoculescu, Algorithmic contracting, discrimination, and human dignity in transports (2025). The article argues that automated decisions in transport can obstruct fair access to mobility – an essential precondition for the full exercise of rights and, implicitly, for the respect of human dignity and personal autonomy.

    Julia Duffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights (2023)

    Linda Barclay, Disability with Dignity: Justice, Human Rights and Equal Status (2020)

  • John G. Roberts, “In Tribute: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,” Harvard Law Review 132 (2018): 1

    Eric J. Scarffe, “Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence of Dignity: From Sovereign Immunity to Gay Rights,” American Journal of Legal History 63, no. 4 (December 2023): 359–380

    Adeno Addis, “Justice Kennedy on Dignity,” Houston Law Review 52 (2015): 825

    Laurence H. Tribe, “Equal Dignity: Speaking Its Name,” Harvard Law Review 129 (2015): 28

    Kenji Yoshino, “A New Birth of Freedom? Obergefell v. Hodges,” Harvard Law Review 129 (2015): 147

    Tobin Sparling, “A Path Unfollowed: The Disregard of Dignity Precedent in Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence,” Tulane Law Review 93 (2018): 115

  • Jason Zenor, “A Private Practice? Commercial Speech, Public Ac- commodation, and Individual Dignity,” Elon Law Review 14 (2022): 87

    Raphael Cohen-Almagor, “Taking Profound Offence Seriously: Freedom of Speech v. Human Dignity,” Journal of Hate Studies 16 (2020): 1

  • Marco Di Donato, Environmental Justice and The Protection of Human Dignity: Legal Challenges and Opportunities Under the New Council of Europe Convention (2025). The article uses caselaw to argue that there is an intrinsic link between environmental integrity and the protection of human life and dignity. Following that argument, protecting ecosystems becomes a way to safeguard human dignity.

    Carmela Pagano, Sustainable Development and The Protection of Human Dignity: Legal Perspectives between International and EU law (2025). This paper demonstrates that human dignity and sustainable development are mutually reinforcing concepts. The paper argues that integrating dignity into the normative structure of sustainability law can enhance both the legitimacy and the efficacy of environmental and social protection.

This bibliography was developed by Erin Daly and Maria Touimi Benjelloun for Daly, Dignity in America: Transforming Social Conflicts (Stanford University Press 2025). Please send us additional resources to include.

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