Right to identity : proceedings of the special workshop "Right to Identity" held at the 27th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Washington DC, 2015

According to the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the catalogue of human rights as it is expressed in the American Convention of Human Rights, as well as in all the other international codifications of human rights, contains a serious gap. It does not provide a particular right for the protection of identity. Therefore, the Court demands the creation of an unwritten human right to identity by case law in addition to the written codices of human rights in international law. The philosophers, lawyers and political scientists joined in this book discuss this assumption under different aspects and from different cultural and legal backgrounds (Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, and Turkey). The book contains contributions that analyze the meaning(s) of the concept "identity" based on an individual approach as well as on the basis of a collective approach. It deals with certain aspects of identity in the context of certain fields of positive law, including criminal law and family law, and it questions the real need for a new right to identity. Introduction / Paul Tiedemann -- Identity And Human Rights: Considerations On A Human Right To Identity / Paul Tiedemann -- Human Dignity As A Common Identity / Zeynep İspir -- A Negative Right Related To Identity As A Right To Change: A Kantian Approach To Philosophical Aspects Of Criminal Justice, Especially Of Life Imprisonment / Rainer Keil -- Is The Right To Identity A Fundamental Human Right? / Zhang Tu -- Body Integrity Indentity Disorder: An Interface Between Body And Personal Identity / Mariana Alves Lara, Fabio Queiroz Pereira, Felipe Quintella Machado De Carvalho -- Collective Identity / Janne Mende -- Right To Identity In The Context Of Constitutional Pluralism: The Case Gelman Vs. Uruguay And The Right To Family Identity / Marcos Augusta Maliska -- Collective Human Right To Collective Identity / Akihiko Morita. Edited By Paul Tiedemann. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Table of Contents Introduction Identity and Human Rights Human Dignity as a Common Identity A Negative Right Related to Identity as a Right to Change Is the Right to Identity a Fundamental Human Right? Body Integrity Identity Disorder Collective Identity Right to Identity in the Context of Constitutional Pluralism Collective Human Right to Collective Identity The Authors Register