Reading Dworkin critically

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Reading Dworkin critically

edited by Alan Hunt

（State, law and society）

Berg : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992

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Bibliography: p. [269]-281

Includes index

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This volume offers a critical interrogation of the widely influential legal and political philosophy of Ronald Dworkin. As the central figure in contemporary Anglo-American legal theory, he has been involved in various debates, in the past mainly with critics on the right, who took issue with his "radical liberalism". In contrast, the authors of this text challenge Dworkin's radical credentials not only with regard to his general political philosophy, but also with reference to his legal theory, his interpretive method and his view of judging. This volume offers a critical interrogation of the widely influential legal and political philosophy of Ronald Dworkin. As the central figure in contemporary Anglo-American legal theory, he has been involved in various debates, in the past mainly with critics on the right, who took issue with his "radical liberalism". In contrast, the authors of this text challenge Dworkin's radical credentials not only with regard to his general political philosophy, but also with reference to his legal theory, his interpretive method and his view of judging.

Table of Contents

  • Law's empire or legal imperialism?
  • the last emperor?
  • the decline and fall of law's empire
  • is Hermes Hercules' twin? - hermeneutics and legal theory
  • Dworkin and the challenge of post-modernism
  • fissures in the integrity of law's empire - Dworkin and the rule of law
  • reading Dworkin empirically - principles, policies and property
  • Dworkin's dutiful daughter - gender discrimination in law's empire
  • impartiality, bias and the judiciary.

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