Ole Lando Memorial Lecture: Contract Law and Human Dignity. Second Ole Lando Memorial Lecture, Vienna 2020

Abstract

The second Ole Lando Memorial Lecture is about the influence of theconstitutional protection of human dignity on private contract law. The paper argues that where violations of human dignity occur, it is no longer possible to distinguish between the vertical and horizontal effects of fundamental and human rights. The article demonstrates this using the example of contracts that violate dignity, in particular within the law on assisted dying.