A Matter of Principle

Ronald Dworkin

    Introduction

    I: The Political Basis of Law

    1. Political Judges and the Rule of Law

    2. The Forum of Principle

    3. Principle, Policy, Procedure

    4. Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Protest

    II: Law as Interpretation

    5. Is There Really No Right Answer in Hard Cases?

    6. How Law Is Like Literature

    7. On Interpretation and Objectivity

    III: Liberalism and Justice

    8. Liberalism

    9. Why Liberals Should Care about Equality

    10. What Justice Isn't

    11. Can a Liberal State Support Art?

    IV: The Economic View of Law

    12. Is Wealth a Value?

    13. Why Efficiency?

    V: Reverse Discrimination

    14. Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair?

    15. What Did Bakke Really Decide?

    16. How to Read the Civil Rights Act

    VI: Censorship and a Free Press

    17. Do We Have a Right to Pornography?

    18. The Farber Case: Reporters and Informers

    19. Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?

    Notes

    Index

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Ronald Dworkin is Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. He is the 2007 recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize.