Right to Life: Scope, Limits and Justiciability

Student: Tatarova Anna

Educational Programme: Legal History, Theory and Philosophy of Law (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This work is devoted to the study of the right to life in the context of bioethics. In particular, the problem of the emergence and end of the right to life. The paper examines the problematic aspects of guaranteeing the right to life in the state, including the problem of the right to life of the unborn (legal status of embryos) and the right to death (euthanasia). The paper considers legislative, judicial and doctrinal sources. Given the importance of issues such as life and death, progressing scientific research devoted to this topic, the purpose of the study is to determine the legislative and legal positions affecting the limits of the right to life (the moment of the beginning and end of life).

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