The Future of Law Dworkin's Vision of a Just and Coherent Legal System

By Raoul Berger, Published on 10/01/97. The distinguished legal scholar, who died last week, gave judges too much license to draw on their own sense of morality. Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin's Forthcoming Book held at Boston University School of Law on September 25-26, 2009. This article aims to present Dworkin's arguments for an objective truth. A truth that exists and explains how things really are and which must be worked out ... Dworkin's progressive, liberal and inspiring approach to the law offers a constructive and systematic alternative to originalism and common good ... This slim but thought-provoking collection of essays on the legal and political and moral philosophy of Ronald Dworkin Ronald Dworkin's innovative and politically ambitious work has become essential reading in political and legal theory. RONALD DWORKIN. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Page 2. Copyright © 1977, 1978 by Ronald Dworkin. All rights reserved. Library of Congress ... Ronald Dworkin was the pre-eminent legal scholar of his generation, whose philosophy eschewed moral ambiguity in favour of clarity and the ... The legal giant, Ronald Dworkin, has passed on. I was interested to read the New York Times obituary to see what a non-specialized paper ...