Dworkin: ∗law′s∗ Empire (cloth) - Hardcover

Ronald Dworkin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674518357 ISBN 13: 9780674518353

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Ronald Dworkin reflects on the nature of the Law, its given authority and its application in a democracy.

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Review:

Ronald Dworkin is America's leading legal philosopher... "Law's Empire" bears testimony to his eminence, evidencing his analytical ingenuity, powerful imagination, and elegant conceptualization. No subject ever seems quite the same after one has read Dworkin's treatment of it. Refreshing and rewarding..."Law's Empire" is Dworkin's framework for the analysis of critical issues in law; and such are the elegance and power of the book that one who has read it may find it hard to return patiently to the stale and shallow categories...in which so much argument about the role of judges is nowadays conducted. -- Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. "Washington Post Book World" Rich and multi-layered...The first sustained, full-length treatment of Dworkin's general theory of law...It is an ambitious book, and it does not disappoint the expectations appropriate to a major work by an important thinker. Dworkin has developed a complex and powerful system of ideas, and they are expounded here with the clarity and elegance to which his readers are by now accustomed. -- Thomas Nagel "London Review of Books" "Law's Empire" is a challenging, important, and richly textured work of legal philosophy written in the vivid and commanding style that Dworkin's readers have come to expect... It offers both a conception of law that explains what our law is and an underlying political theory that explains why we should conceive of our law in that way...Dworkin seeks, ultimately, nothing less than a kind of unified field theory of moral justification: a theory that would unite--or at least connect--personal morality, legal justification, and political legitimacy. -- Silas Wasserstrom "Georgetown Law Journal"

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'Ronald Dworkin is America's leading legal philosopher . . . testimony to his eminence, evidencing his analytical ingenuity, powerful imagination, and elegant concepualization. No subject ever seems quite the same after one has read Dworkin's treatment of it.'--London Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0674518357
• ISBN 13: 9780674518353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 486