Human Dignity in the Legal Positions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

The article devotes to the study of human dignity in the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. The author aims to continue a previous two science papers on human dignity in the Journal of Eastern European Law. The current law of developed countries is formed under the influence of various historical moments. For each state, the periods of historical processes have their characteristics and consequences. Besides, the author demonstrates the main trends of human dignity in Ukraine and provides the current approaches in dignity in the national law system. This paper provides an overview of the development of the legal position of dignity in the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Some decisions of the Constitutional Court demonstrate to us a formal explanation "what is human dignity?" However, European Constitutional Courts have special approaches in a lot of cases that help us to understand dignity as a basic value. For example, in the European continent, human dignity is the value on the constitutional level as well as the rule of law, human rights, and democracy. It is a main characteristic of the constitutional values in the European countries that develop democratically. Unfortunately, there are a lot of legal positions in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine where human dignity is used as a declarative category. First of all, on 29 December 1999 in the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine human dignity is explained as an important part of the right to life. In this case, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine does not more detail the special characteristics of human dignity as a constitutional value. After a long time, on 22 May 2018, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine is made decision where propose a new definition of human dignity. According to the decision, human dignity has basic elements that include such characteristics: 1) dignity is a constitutional human right is guaranteed in Article 28 of the Constitution of Ukraine, 2) human dignity is the constitutional value and is been a basic for all of the constitutional rights, 3) dignity is been a checklist and criteria for the limitation of human rights. Finally, the science paper aims to contribute to the growing more scientific papers which are highlighting the current issues of human dignity