Catherine Dupré The Age of Dignity Book sku-44368639

Catherine Dupré's hardcover The Age of Dignity is listed under Civil Rights Law Books, SKU sku-44368639. The book examines human dignity, a challenging idea for lawyers and political philosophers in the twenty-first century.

Although dignity is becoming a core concept across legal systems and is the European Union's first foundational value under the Lisbon Treaty, it remains little understood and often mistrusted. Drawing on comparative and cross-disciplinary research, the book critically examines dignity's origins, development and potential in European constitutionalism.

It connects dignity with human rights, constitutional law and democracy, arguing that dignity's varied and growing uses point to a transformation of European constitutionalism. Its analysis considers the construction and protection of constitutional time and definitions of humanity as human beings, citizens and workers.

A comparative study of case law covers the two European supranational courts and domestic constitutional courts, especially those in Germany, the UK, France and Hungary. Dupré argues for understanding European constitutionalism as a form of humanism.