Browsing LAW Working Papers by Author "HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, Stéphanie"

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Title: Words Count. How Interest in Stem Cells has Made the Embryo Available: A Look at the French Law of Bioethics Author(s): HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, Stéphanie Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper aims at demonstrating the manner in which the recent focus of the public and legislative debate in France on the issue of embryonic stem cells has contributed to silencing the previously strong opposition to ...
Title: A Human Dignitas? The Contemporary Principle of Human Dignity as a Mere Reappraisal of an Ancient Legal Concept Author(s): HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, Stéphanie Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper suggests that the contemporary principle of human dignity in so far as it is used as means of limiting the exercise of individual freedom (in such landmark cases as the dwarf-throwing ones, as well as when ...
Title: When Ambivalent Principles Prevail. Leads for Explaining Western Legal Orders’ Infatuation with the Human Dignity Principle Author(s): HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, Stéphanie Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper originates in the statement of the human dignity principle’s (HDP) growing importance in many legal orders. It first examines whether many legal orders’ interest for the HDP may be linked to its intrinsic ...

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