Taking Rights Seriously With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics

Name: Taking Rights Seriously With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics
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ISBN: 9780674867116

ISBN-10: 0674867114

ISBN-13: 9780674867116

Edition: 1978

Authors: Ronald Dworkin

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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 those explicitly laid down and that they have political and moral rights against the state that are…

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List price: $34.50
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Ronald Dworkin was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University.



Introduction



Jurisprudence



The Model of Rules I



The Model of Rules II



Hard Cases



Constitutional Cases



Justice and Rights



Taking Rights Seriously



Civil Disobedience



Reverse Discrimination



Liberty and Moralism



Liberty and Liberalism



What Rights Do We Have?



Can Rights be Controversial?



A Reply to Critics


Index