Abstract

This chapter deals with the concept of human dignity and its reference in the Albanian legal order and courts’ case law. It shows that human dignity is considered one of the key legal concepts both at the constitutional and statutory level. The author tries to answer some of the questions: Is human dignity a constitutional value/principle or an individual right? Could it be limited or does it have an absolute protection? In particular, the relevant case law of the Albanian Constitutional Court on human dignity will be examined more closely. At the statutory level, human dignity is protected by a number of statutes, but unfortunately there is a modest legal reasoning on human dignity, which seems to be still an undiscovered path by the judges.