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Human dignity is a central value in all legal traditions. It also plays an essential role in the universal and regional protection of human rights. This paper recovers Kantian classic treatment of dignity and offers a contemporary reading that will help us to deal with current problems. The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights uses the idea of human dignity to justify many of its decisions. The Latin American democracies, in spite of some fragilities inherited from their recent turbulent history, show strength and importance of dignity for guarantee of human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a work in progress, dealing with property rights regarding the human body. This paper tackles conceptions of property, and approaches the possibility of considering the human body or its parts as such. If this is indeed the case, as is suggested by some decisions of the jurisprudence of a number of different countries, we have to ask about the rights of individuals whose bodies were the origin of these properties. What exact entitlements should these people have, and what are the possible consequences of these entitlements becoming legally recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]