Justice in Robes

Name: Justice in Robes
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ISBN: 9780674027275

ISBN-10: 0674027272

ISBN-13: 9780674027275

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ronald Dworkin

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How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? Lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, politicians, and judges all have answers to that question: these range from "nothing" to "everything." In his new book Ronald Dworkin argues that the question is much more complex than it has often been taken to be and charts a variety of dimensions--semantic, jurisprudential, and doctrinal--in which law and morals are undoubtedly interwoven. He restates and summarizes his own widely discussed account of these connections, which emphasizes the sovereign importance of moral principle in legal and constitutional interpretation, and then reviews and criticizes the most…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.30" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

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



Introduction: Law and Morals



Pragmatism and Law



In Praise of Theory



Darwin's New Bulldog



Moral Pluralism



Originalism and Fidelity



Hart's Postscript and the Point of Political Philosophy



Thirty Years On



The Concepts of Law



Rawls and the Law


Notes


Sources


Index