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    "page_intro": "<p>The Dignity Law Institute is the only law school program in the country dedicated to the legal right to live with dignity.</p>",
    "page_content": "<p>The Dignity Law Institute offers students opportunities for experiential learning and practical applications in partnership with legal, academic, non-profit, community-based organizations in all parts of the world as well as national and international advocacy groups -- all to advance the human right to dignity! The Institute houses the Dignity Rights Clinic, sponsors research opportunities, and develops working partnerships.</p>\r\n<p>Human dignity recognizes the equal and inalienable value of every member of the human family. It is recognized in the International Bill of Rights, and in most Human Rights Instruments, including the Sustainable Development Goals. It is incorporated into most of the world's constitutions, and courts around the world are increasingly vindicating dignity rights in civil, political, social, economic, cultural and environmental contexts. Dignity Law is an emerging, global, and foundational area of law that touches every aspect of the human experience.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Co-Directors:</strong> <a href=\"ipl://20//WyIyOSJd////\">Erin Daly</a> | <a href=\"ipl://20//WyIxMjIiXQ==////\">James R. May</a></p>\r\n<p>For more information, please email either&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:edaly@widener.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">edaly@widener.edu</a>&nbsp;or James R. May at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jrmay@widener.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">jrmay@widener.edu</a>.</p>\r\n<p>The Dignity Law Institute is pleased to share important new resources in Dignity Law,&nbsp;developed by Delaware Law Students and others.</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>The Dignity Law Institute is pleased to partner with the Dignity Rights Initiative at the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights on a series of webinars on Ethnocide and Dignity. You can watch Professor Jim May's conversation with Barrett Holmes Pitner here through June 27, 2022: <a href=\"https://wumail-my.sharepoint.com/personal/dlsmediaservices_widener_edu/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fdlsmediaservices%5Fwidener%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FProf%20Erin%20Daly%2FDRI%2FThe%20Crime%20Without%20a%20Name%20Ethnocide%20and%20the%20Erasure%20of%20Culture%20in%20America%20A%20Conversation%20with%20Author%20Barrett%20Holmes%20Pitner%2Emp4&amp;parent=%2Fpersonal%2Fdlsmediaservices%5Fwidener%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FProf%20Erin%20Daly%2FDRI&amp;ga=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Crime Without a Name Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America A Conversation with Author Barrett Holmes Pitner</a> (.mp4) and you can watch the conversation between Barrett Holmes Pitner and Professor Erin Daly, moderated by Judge Bernice B. Donald, of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: <a href=\"https://www.americanbar.org/groups/human_rights/dignity-rights-initiative/ethnocide-project/webinar-ethnocide-and-dignity-rights-lessons-for-today/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnocide and Dignity Rights: Lessons for Today</a>.</li>\r\n<li>Dignity and Criminal Law. Students in the Dignity Rights Clinic are working with people who are presently incarcerated on Dignity In the Criminal Legal System: A Handbook for Litigation, Advocacy, and Reform, in an ongoing, 2-year partnership with the Prisoner Legal Advocacy Network. The Clinic held a day-long conference, co-sponsored by Delaware Humanities, devoted to recognizing dignity in the criminal legal system in Delaware.</li>\r\n<li>Cases and Constitutions: The Dignity Law Institute is pleased to partner with Dignity Rights International on 2 new important resources for scholars and practitioners: the only database in the world dedicated to cases involving dignity rights. <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GebYSEqcECDla3Vt9Ohw5ivi1Tq9ywFgGwIfdHojg_w/edit#gid=51272552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to see more than 200 new and important cases</a> from more than 30 jurisdictions at the regional, national, and subnational level on all topics from voting rights to gender identity to prisoners&rsquo; rights, and more! You can search by keyword, court, region and otherwise. Most cases include abstracts and links to the original case. Please contact us to add more cases to the Library. The Case Library complements our updated <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qTzxpkXyvnE3PTpj7PD8YwRF1IEsIQhzGMBNd3eWvxg/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dignity Constitutions Database</a>, providing the text of all constitutions protecting dignity: we&rsquo;ve found 613 different provisions in 173 constitutions!</li>\r\n</ol>",
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