Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: principle, matter
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 1985-10
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0674554612
ISBN-13: 9780674554610

This is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. For example, whether judges should and do make law is now of more practical importance than ever before, as recent presidents have appointed enough justices to the Supreme Court to set its character for a generation. With forceful style, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions about the Anglo-American legal system as protector of individual rights and as machinery for furthering the common good. He discusses w

Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: empire, law
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0674518365
ISBN-13: 9780674518360

With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law’s Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debated--by scholars and theorists, by lawyers and judges, by students and political activists--for years to come. Dworkin begins with the question that is at the heart of the whole legal system: in difficult cases how do (and how should) judges decide what the law is? He shows that judges must decid

Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: equality, practice, theory, virtue, sovereign
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0674008103
ISBN-13: 9780674008106

Sovereign Virtue The Theory and Practice of Equality Ronald Dworkin Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly th

Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: seriously, rights, taking
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1978-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0674867114
ISBN-13: 9780674867116

What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally free to disobey? A renowned philosopher enters the debate surrounding these questions. Clearly and forcefully, Ronald Dworkin argues against the "ruling" theory in Anglo-American law-legal positivism and economic utilitarianism and asserts that individuals have legal rights beyond t

Author: Ronald M. Dworkin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: philosophy, readings, law, oxford
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1977-01-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0198750226
ISBN-13: 9780198750222

Echoing the debate about the nature of law that has dominated legal philosophy for several decades, this volume includes essays on the nature of law and on law not as it is but as it should be. Wherever possible, essays have been chosen that have provoked direct responses from other legal philosophers, and in two cases these responses are included. Contributors include H.L.A. Hart, R.M. Dworkin, Lord Patrick Devlin, John Rawls, J.J. Thomson, J. Finnis, and T.M. Scanlon.

Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: american, constitution, reading, moral, law, freedom
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 1999-07-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0198265573
ISBN-13: 9780198265573

Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: New York Review Books
Keywords: court, wing, bloc, right, new, phalanx, supreme
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1590172930
ISBN-13: 9781590172933

George W. Bush’s nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 were widely expected to turn it sharply to the right. But no one foresaw the rapidity or the revolutionary zeal with which, as Ronald Dworkin writes, the Court would begin “overruling, most often by stealth, the central constitutional doctrines that generations of past justices, conservative as well as liberal, had constructed.”  Dworkin examines the key decisions of the Court’s 2006-–2007 term and argues that these two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have c