Discovering Dignity in Adjudication: The Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union

The chapter illustrates how the Court of Justice of the European Union has progressively developed its jurisprudence on human dignity. It analyzes the legal sources that brought the concept of human dignity to the center stage of EU law, the relevant case law, what drivers led the concept to succeed, and in which field the Court has paid a special attention to it