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The science paper devotes to the study of the ratio of human dignity and the right to free development of personality based on legal doctrine and practice in Germany and Ukraine. The right to free development of personality can be attributed to one of the examples of individual freedom. However, the right to free development of personality is a part of the system of basic human rights under the Basic Law of Germany. Besides, according to Article 2 (1) of the Basic Law of Germany, the right to free development of personality is a basic human right in the German legal system. The right to free development of personality is the first basic human rights that continue a system after human dignity. Also, іn the Constitution of Ukraine, the right to development of personality is guaranteed in Article 23 as a constitutional human right. It means, that we might ratio to the right to free development of personality and human dignity as a constitutional value. Therefore, to achieve the goals of the study, the materials of the German and Ukrainian doctrines are considered and the practice of protection of the right to free development of personality in combination with the guarantee of human dignity. Finally, the author turns to the study of the hierarchy of constitutional values. This problem is relevant in both German and Ukrainian legal doctrine. There are different approaches to the analysis and definition of the system of constitutional values among researchers of constitutional values. Besides, human dignity is a basic constitutional value in democratic countries and an absolute human right. In the practice in the European constitutional courts often human dignity ratios with different basic human rights. Constitutional courts have to choose the criteria for the limitation of human rights and to protect dignity as a constitutional value. The author aims to contribute to the growing researches in human dignity issues.

This paper deals with the study of the general aspect of the regional structure of human rights. The author pays attention to the structure of the regional system of human rights protection and proposes a basic characteristic of the three elements of this regional system: the American system, the African system, and the regional system in the Middle East. Besides, in the article analysis of Ukrainian doctrine about this issue. The purpose of the article is to study the regional structure of human rights. The following tasks are formulated: 1) to characterize regionalism as a general characteristic of human rights, 2) to research the classification of the regional structure of human rights protection, and 3) to consider scientific research on this issue. The problem of human rights is relevant for a lot of researches because human rights are a modern legal value in a democracy. The development of democracy depends on the level of implementation and protection of human rights. Thus, the development of democracy should analyze through the right level of guarantees, protection, and defense of human rights. Researchers consider both philosophical aspects and international human rights standards. However, the conception of human rights on the international level develops as a universal idea all over the world. In this aspect, human rights are a current concept, but regionalism demonstrates some specialty of human rights in the universal aspect. The author highlights the regional system of human rights as a scientific and practical problem. Finally, the investigation contains necessary conclusions enabling the author to prove the motivation in researching the outlined topic. After all, human rights are an important issue for developed countries as well as developing countries. The author aims to continue a previous science paper on human rights issues in the Ukrainian doctrine.

This article devotes to the study of human dignity in law. To determine the value characteristics of human dignity, the materials of both scientific developments and practical examples are analyzed. Thus, the paper analyses the constitutional regulation of human dignity according to the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany and the doctrinal approaches that reveal the importance of dignity in law. Besides, the author pay attention to the protection of human dignity by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. 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. The focus is on the universal concept of human dignity, which is the value base for current democratic countries. The issue of human dignity cannot research without the German`s legal approach. It is in the German legal system that human dignity can be distinguished as a legal value. The universality of human dignity should be explained by the approaches laid down in German doctrine. For the social sciences, especially law, human dignity is an important context in the current world. However, human dignity focuses on both the legislative level of guarantee (first of all, constitutional level) and practically depends on the specifics of implementation (first of all, judicial protection). Finally, the investigation contains necessary conclusions enabling the author to prove the motivation in researching the outlined topic. Specifically, human dignity is an important issue for current democracy and a very specific conception in the general theory of law as well as in the constitutional law. So, this article aims to contribute to the growing more scientific papers which are highlighting the options for the effective protection of human rights.

This research paper deals with the study of human dignity in Ukrainian legal doctrine. In particular, the article offers the analysis of Ukrainian scientific researches on human dignity as a constitutional value. The present study is important for two main reasons: 1) the article analyses human dignity on the normative level and 2) studies the design of norm Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine. This paper provides an overview of the development of the position of dignity in the legal system of Ukraine. There are a lot of authors investigate human dignity in different aspects. At least, in the science paper highlights human dignity as value and principle. However, human dignity isoften named human rights but the author focuses on dignity as the value in the current constitutional law. The focus is on the universal concept of human dignity, which is the value base for current democratic countries.In fact, 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. Particular attention is paid to the analysis normative structure of the Constitution of Ukraine which regulates human dignity in Article 3 of the Constitution. The author demonstrates discussions about the constitutional design of human dignity in Ukraine. Besides, increased focus on the negative connotation to direct interpretation of the article about human dignity in the Constitution of Ukraine. In general terms, the author demonstrates the main trends of human dignity in the Ukrainian doctrine and provides the current approaches in dignity in the national law system in Ukraine. So, the investigation contains necessary conclusions enabling the author to prove the motivation in researching the outlined topic. Specifically, human dignity is an important issue for current democratic states. The author aims to continue a previous science paper on human dignity as ...

This article deals with the institute of citizenship which is a key element of the legal status of an individual through which the basic human rights are realized. The author considers the correlation between civil and political human rights which are considering as interdependent types of human rights. German and Ukrainian legal literature on the subject of the paper is examined and features of the citizenship of the European Union are analyzed. Basic human rights are studied in the German legal doctrine. Basic human rights are realized through the legal status of a natural person as a subject of such rights. According to the natural-rights approach it is traditionally believed that basic human rights are the bearer of rights from nature. By the way, the state does not have a direct need to normative consolidation of such rights. Recognition of the basic rights by the state in modern conditions is one of the elements of the guarantee of human rights in a democracy. The author highlights the legal status of a natural person who influences the realization of human rights. The legal status of the natural person involves various elements. One of the elements of the legal status of the natural person is the institution of citizenship. The article concludes that citizenship is a legal status of the natural person who can realize the complex human rights.