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Taking Rights Seriously - Softcover

Dworkin, Ronald

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Synopsis

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?

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About the Author

Ronald Dworkin is Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London.

Review

Dworkin's writing launches a frontal attack on the two concepts, utilitarianism and legal positivism, that have dominated Anglo-American jurisprudence in the 20th century... Dworkins theories have created shock waves among jurisprudential scholars.

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9780674867109: Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics

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ISBN 10:  0674867106 ISBN 13:  9780674867109
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1977
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