Why Is Ronald Dworkin Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. Dworkin had taught previously at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford, where he was the Professor of Jurisprudence, successor to renowned philosopher H. L. A. Hart. An influential contributor to both philosophy of law and political philosophy, Dworkin received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize in the Humanities for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact." According to a survey in The Journal of Legal Studies, Dworkin was the second most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century. After his death, the Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein said Dworkin was "one of the most important legal philosophers of the last 100 years. He may well head the list."
Ronald Dworkin's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 Published Papers Taking Rights Seriously. (2125) Taking Rights Seriously (1836) What is Equality? Part 2: Equality of Resources (1460) Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (1323) What is Equality? Part 1: Equality of Welfare (926) A Matter of Principle (836) Taking Rights Seriously. (759) Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It (443) Life's Dominion (354) Is democracy possible here? : principles for a new political debate (252) Equality, Luck and Hierarchy (205) Public and Private Morality: LIBERALISM (137) A New Philosophy for International Law (121) Hart's Postscript and the Character of Political Philosophy (114) IS THERE A RIGHT TO PORNOGRAPHY (92) Religion without God (85) Comment on Narveson: in Defense of Equality (71) Thirty Years On (57) A bill of rights for Britain (56) Is Democracy Possible Here (51) Equality, Democracy, and Constitution: We the People in Court (37) The Right to Ridicule (36) Uses and Abuses (36) Constitutionalism and Democracy (35) The Philosophy of Law (30) Social Rules and Legal Theory (30) Principles, Positivism, and Legal Theory (29) Why Efficiency? - A Response to Professors Calabresi and Posner (26) Will Clinton's plan be fair? (26) Unenumerated rights: whether and how Roe should be overruled. (25) Darwin's New Bulldog (23) Is Integrity a Virtue? Dworkin's Theory of Legal Obligation@@@Law's Empire (22) THE FORUM OF PRINCIPLE (22) The Arduous Virtue of Fidelity: Originalism, Scalia, Tribe, and Nerve (19) A New Map of Censorship (18) Law's Ambitions for Itself (14) Social Sciences and Constitutional Rights--the Consequences of Uncertainty. (13) Explaining Theoretical Disagreement (11) The Partnership Conception of Democracy (10) The right to death. (10) From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition (10) Une Question De Principe (9) The Jurisprudence of Reasons (9) What Is the Rule of Law (8) What the Court Really Said (8) The Elusive Morality of Law (7) Three Questions for America (7) Reasonable Expectation of Privacy (7) Life is sacred -- that's the easy part. (7) Reflections on Fidelity (6) A justiça de toga (6) From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis (6) Executive Order 9066 (6) Response to overseas commentators (6) Supreme Court Nominations (6) A British Bill of Rights (6) The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc (5) Dworkin's Domain (5) Massachusetts Body of Liberties (5) O que é uma vida boa (5) A badly flawed election : debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American democracy (5) Civil Rights Commission (5) The DeFunis Case: The Right to go to Law School. (4) Affirmative Action: Is it Fair?. (4) Schenck V United States (4) Equality of Resources (4) Life's Sacred Value—Common Ground or Battleground (4) Cosmopolitan Law (4) Judge Roberts on Trial (4) Taking Law Seriously: Reflections on "Thinking like a Lawyer" (4) Woman Suffrage Movement (3) When is it right to die? (3) Taking rights seriously in the abortion case. (3) From Justice in robes to Justice for hedgehogs (3) Law, philosophy and interpretation (3) Executive Order 9981 (3) Seneca Falls Convention (3) Equality of Welfare (3) Forked tongues, faked doctrines (3) Virginia Constitution of 1776 (3) Executive Order 9980 (3) Bork's Jurisprudence (3) Devaluing Liberty (3) How to Think about Equality (2) Equality, Democracy, and Constitution (2) Euthanasia, morality, and law. Transcript. (2) LEGAL RULES AND PRINCIPLES : A THEORY REVISITED (2) Titles of Nobility (2) Cease and Desist Order (2) The Court and abortion: worse than you think. (2) Social Sciences and Constitutional Rights. (2) How Law Is Like Literature (2) The unbearable cost of liberty (2) LEGAL DEFINITIONS OF DEATH (2) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (2) An Affair of State: An Exchange (1) A new map of censorship (1) Least Restrictive Means Test (1) State Constitutional Law (1) The Political Culture of Liberalism and the Prospects for Eastern and Central Europe (1) Reply to Paul Ricœur (1) Chapter 6 The Moral Reading and the Majoritarian Premise (1) United States Court of Federal Claims (1) Philosophy and Politics (1) Obligation of Contracts (1) The Strange Case of Judge Alito (1) A CONFERÊNCIA MCCORCKLE DE 1984: AS AMBIÇÕES DO DIREITO PARA SI PRÓPRIO (1) Inside Out, Within and Beyond, or Backwards? (1) Necessary and Proper Clause (1) The Case for Law-A Critique (1) Private law theory and taxonomy: reframing the debate (1) Constitution as Aspiration (1) Federal Judicial System (1) Public Purpose Doctrine (1) Terror and religion (1) Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1) Taking Rights Seriously (1) Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1972 (1) Separate but Equal Doctrine (1) Executive Order 10450 (1) Ratification of the Constitution (1) The Poetics of Legal Interpretation (1) James Bradley Thayer (0) Constitutional History, 1977_1985 (0) Reply to Professor Nowell‐Smith (0) Critical Legal Studies (0) Privileges And Immunities (0) Federalism and Shared Powers (0) Coercion vs Conscience (0) Bushell's Case (0) Stream of Commerce Doctrine (0) Federal Judicial Role (0) McGiLL Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy (0) Constitution Political Philosophy (0) Standard of Review (0) New Jersey Colonial Charters (0) Badges of Servitude (0) Liberal Constitutional Construction (0) Capital Punishment Cases of 1972 (0) Loyalty-Security Programs (0) Are Quotas Unfair (0) Constitutional History, 1921_1933 (0) Constitutional History, 1980_1989 (0) Frazier-Lemke Acts (0) Civil Rights Movement (0) Conquered Provinces Theory (0) The Gold Clause Cases (0) Immunity of Public Officials (0) Freedom of Contract (0) Justice for Hedgehogs (0) Two Conceptions of Democracy (0) Interest Group Litigation (0) in memoriam (0) in memoriam (0) Executive Order 9835 (0) Civil Rights Removal (0) Constitutional History, 1961_1977 (0) State Immunity From Federal Law (0) Juvenile Curfew Laws (0) Constitutional History, 1877_1901 (0) Fair Return on Fair Value (0) Calvin's Case (0) State Tax Subsidies (0) Benign Racial Classification (0) Constitutional History, 1861_1865 (0) A Threatening Decision for Democracy (0) Freedom of Petition (0) Affected With a Public Interest (0) Abortion Constitutional Rights (0) Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (0) Supreme Court Practice (0) Letter to the editor: journalists' right to a fair trial (0) Uma vitória maior do que se pensava (0) Public Law Litigation (0) Bank of the United States Bill (0) Law, Politics, and the Claims of Community (0) International Human Rights (0) William Henry Hastie (0) Criminal Syndicalism Laws (0) Equal Rights Amendment (0) Tribal Economic Development (0) Political Philosophy of the Constitution (0) Presidential Ordinance-Making Power (0) Federal Common Law of Crimes (0) Ordinance of 1784 (0) Federal Judicial Appointments (0) Rawls and the Law (0) Religion in Public Schools (0) Informant's Tip (0) Zenger's Case (0) Commentators on the Constitution (0) The Case for LawA Critique (0) Confronting the end of the socialist era (0) Three-Judge Court (0) Corporate Federalism History (0) Color of Law (0) In Re Oliver (0) Public Choice Theory (0) District of Columbia Representation (0) Kemmler, In Re (0) A INDICAÇÃO DE BORK (0) Objetividade e Verdade: Melhor Você Acreditar (0) Justice in Robes (0) Jay's Treaty (0) Children's Rights (0) Constitutional Rights, Police Pursuits (0) THE MORALITY OF LAW THE ELUSIVE MORALITY OF LAW (0) Constitutional History, 1989_1999 (0) Abortion: round 1. (0) Richard Henry Lee (0) Madison's Notes Of The Debates (0) Pennsylvania Colonial Charters (0) Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (0) Supreme Court Decisions (0) Washington’s Farewell Address (0) Constitution as Literature (0) John Paul Stevens (0) Federal Judicial Tenure (0) Susan Brownell Anthony (0) Subversive Activities Control Board (0) Guilt By Association (0) Constitutional History, 1776_1789 (0) Capital Punishment Cases (0) Carl Brent Swisher (0) Constitutional History, 1848_1861 (0) Substantive Due Process (0) Constitutional Rights, Waiver of (0) Constitutional Theoryand Lincoln (0) Freedom of the Press, Journalistic Practices (0) Henry Steele Commager (0) Religious Symbols in Public Places (0) Supreme Court Term (0) Stockholder's Suit (0) Trial by Jury (0) Intellectual Property Law (0) ESSAYS COURTING DELIBERATION : AN ESSAY ON DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM (0) Noxious Products Doctrine (0) Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (0) Free Speech and Rico (0) Twenty-Seventh Amendment (0) Import-Export Clause (0) Religion and Free Speech (0) Freedom of Association (0) Popular Sovereignty in Democratic Political Theory (0) Constitutional Convention of 1787 (0) Accommodation of Religion (0) Exhaustion Of Remedies (0) Workers Compensation Legislation (0) Incorporation of Territories (0) Exigent Circumstances Search (0) Joint Committee on Reconstruction (0) Somerset's Case (0) Plain View Doctrine (0) Executive Order 10340 (0) Economics of Affirmative Action (0) Rule of Reason (0) Social Compact Theory (0) Presidential Removal Power (0) Thomas Reed Powell (0) Free Press/Fair Trial (0) Sunday Closing Laws (0) Progressive Constitutional Thought (0) Civil Rights Practice (0) Comment (0) Privilege From Arrest (0) Opinion of the Court (0) Plain Feel Doctrine (0) Final Judgment Rule (0) Political Theory and Legal Education (0) Speech or Debate Clause (0) RULES AND SOCIAL FACTS (0) Gideon V Wainwright (0) Law and Economics Theory (0) Steel Seizure Controversy (0) Theory of Federalism (0) Hylton V United States (0) Freedom of Assembly and Association (0) Loving V Virginia (0) Stop and Frisk (0) Oliver Wendell Holmes (0) Fullilove V Klutznick (0) Equality of Capacity AMARTYA SEN WHY EQUALITY ? WHAT EQUALITY ? (0) States' Rights Amendments (0) Sexual Predator Laws (0) Diamonds in the cosmic sands (0) Virginia Charter of 1606 (0) Freedom of Speech , Internet (0) Same-Sex Marriage (0) Taxation Without Representation (0) Supreme Court at Work (0) Federal Grants-In-Aid (0) Mark Dewolfe Howe (0) Third-Party Consent (0) Supreme Court History (0) Constitutional History, 1789_1801 (0) New York Charter of Liberties and Privileges (0) Yale Law School Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository (0) Low-Value Speech (0) Nashville Convention Resolutions (0) Congressional Privileges and Immunities (0) CoNFRoNtiNg DwoRkiN AND HAyEk’S LEgAL AND PoLitiCAL PHiLoSoPHy (0) 2 The Rule of Law as the Ruleof Liberal Principle (0) Emergency Court of Appeals (0) 12. Women and Pornography (0) Humanities in Review: Volume I (0) Henry Cabot Lodge (0) Freedom of Speech (0) James Coolidge Carter (0) 52. A Matter of Principle (0) Critical Race Theory (0) Constitutional History, 1933_1945 (0) Good Faith Exception (0) Right Of Privacy (0) Advice And Consent (0) Supreme Court's Work Load (0) Ruth Bader Ginsburg (0) Freedom of Intimate Association (0) Social Science in Constitutional Litigation (0) 4. A BADLY FLAWED ELECTION (0) Intergovernmental Tax Immunities (0) The Woodchopper Revisited (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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