Examining Ronald Dworkin's Contribution to Legal Scholarship

Article Summary. Ronald Dworkin's early, highly controversial, thesis that there are right answers in hard cases in law, coupled with his attack on the idea ... Ronald Dworkin gives a talk on the notion of political equality and some of the difficulties that arise with it (and thus with democracy ... Ronald Dworkin's innovative and politically ambitious work has become essential reading in political and legal theory. U. Annual. Survey of American Law to Ronald Dworkin. 1. See, e.g., Richard A. Posner, Conceptions of Legal "Theory" ... This note is based on the legal non-positivist model of Ronald Dworkin, developed in important works 1 such as Taking rights seriously, Law's Empire, and ... Ronald Dworkin in 1975 of HLA Hart, his predecessor in the Chair of Jurisprudence in Oxford, 'is now the province he has travelled.' Read the latest content published by Ronald Dworkin on the Harvard Law Review. Ronald Dworkin argues in his new book, Justice for Hedgehogs, that there are absolute moral values – and that they are built on dignity and self-respect. A prolific writer, Dworkin has authored dozens of articles for philosophical and legal journals and has written on legal and political topics ... Introduction. Ronald Dworkin has based his theory of law on his on-going critique of positivist theories of law, especially the theory developed by Hart in ...