The renaissance of human dignity?

Abstract

The right to human dignity is tantalisingly elusive, refreshingly undefined, potentially virile and incontestably responsive to changing societal conditions: just the recipe for common law judges worldwide. In a landmark Northern Ireland human rights case, this fundamental and universally recognised, though occasionally neglected, right, of impeccable lineage and credentials, has had something of a renaissance. There is surely ample scope for its resurgence and development in both domestic and global contexts, legal and otherwise.