How dignity was introduced into the law and what dignity contributed to the law

Cristina Sâmboan ()
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Cristina Sâmboan: University "Artifex" Bucharest

Juridical Tribune - Review of Comparative and International Law, 2012, vol. 2, issue 1, 155-161

Abstract: The exact content of the relation between dignity and law has not been fully clarified yet. We only know that, although it has been used since antiquity, the notion entered international legislation and national constitutions only after WWII. Since then, the law uses the term, but it does not define it. Under the circumstances, can we talk about a legal concept? Is dignity a means or a purpose to law? Which is its relation with the fundamental human rights? Is it a right among others, or a basic ground for all of them? Here are a few questions to which the present article is trying to provide some answers…

Keywords: dignity; law; fundamental rights; natural law; abuse of right (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K00 K30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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