Catherine Dupré is the author of Importing the Law in Post-Communist Transitions: The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity (Hart Publishing, 2003) and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.

• 1. Introduction I. The Rise of Dignity II. Positioning Human Dignity at the Heart of European Constitutionalism III. Human Dignity as a Constitutional Concept IV. The Age of Dignity 2. We are Not Born in Dignity I. Introduction II. Human Dignity as Ideal III. 1789: From Dignities to Dignity IV. Dignity as Humanity V. Conclusion 3. The Foundations of European Constitutionalism: 1949, 1989, 2009 I. Introduction II. Making Sense of the Past III. Human Dignity as Constitutional Foundation IV. Normative Definition of Human Dignity V. Conclusion 4. Human Dignity: A Judge-Made Concept I. Introduction II. Endorsing and Re-Activating the Foundational Promise III. Making Human Dignity European IV. The Essence of European Constitutionalism V. Conclusion 5. Hidden in Plain View: Workers’ Human Dignity I. Introduction II. Workers are Human Beings III. Constructing Workers’ Dignity: The EU Charter as a Basis IV. Workers’ Dignity and Democracy V. Conclusion 6. Defining Dignity, Protecting Human Time I. Introduction II. Constitutional Time Overflows III. Human Dignity as Human Time IV. Protecting Human Time V. Conclusion 7. Re-Thinking European Constitutionalism: Dignity, Humanism, Democracy I. Introduction II. Constitutionalism as Humanism III. Dignity-Democracy IV. Conclusion 8. Conclusion

The Age of Dignity offers an array of ways of thinking about, interpreting and shaping (human) dignity through time, unfolded with the aspiration of humanist constitutionalism at its centre.