Unraveling the Tapestry of Ronald Dworkin's Legal Thought

Ronald Dworkin, who has died aged 81, was widely respected as the most original and powerful philosopher of law in the English-speaking ... U. Annual. Survey of American Law to Ronald Dworkin. 1. See, e.g., Richard A. Posner, Conceptions of Legal "Theory" ... 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 ... Ronald Dworkin, the Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, passed away on February 14 after a valiant battle with leukemia. Mr. Dworkin, who died of leukemia, was a liberal scholar unafraid to tackle the really big issues of ethics, morality, equality, justice and the “unity of ... Ronald Dworkin, a legal philosopher and public intellectual of bracingly liberal views who insisted that morality is the touchstone of ... In this program, Ronald Dworkin discusses political philosophy with Bryan Magee. The focus is mainly on John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" ... 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 argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different ... Ronald Myles Dworkin FBA QC was an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, ...