The late Ronald Dworkin might have seen last week’s arguments as a repudiation of his life’s work. His project was all about law (very loosely speaking) as a high-toned principle, imported with Herculean effort into open-ended rights guarantees. That pitch, …
The death of Ronald Dworkin on February 14, 2013 provides an occasion to reflect not only on his contributions to legal philosophy, but to the entire enterprise of jurisprudential theory from the point of view of progressive thinkers.
By the …
There have been many discussions of Ronald Dworkin’s work in recent blogs. For some examples, see Jim Fleming, Cass Sunstein, and Richard Epstein.
Many people consider Law’s Empire to be Dworkin’s most important work on law. For …
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 would see as his most important contribution. Significantly, the obituary did not highlight his contributions to …
Ronald Dworkin, a liberal supernova who has long radiated more heat than light, seems to be fading faster than we knew. In a recent piece in the The New York Review of Books (“A Bigger Victory Than We Knew,” August …
Ronald Dworkin has published a New York Review of Book Essay on the Supreme Court’s health care decision. The essay has all of the characteristics of the typical Dworkin NY Review essay: it stakes out the liberal position, argues for …
In Legality, Yale law professor Scott Shapiro attempts to answer the question “What is law?” From the outset, he makes clear that his effort is a work of analytical jurisprudence, i.e., one “not concerned with morality” (3). But unlike …
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