The most important work in jurisprudence since H. L. .A. Hart's The Concept of Law and, from a philosophical point of view at least, the most sophisticated contribution to that subject yet made by an American writer... Dworkin's essays are brilliantly written ... [T]he book is remarkable in its unity and technical assurance.
   --The New York Review of Books

It is a rare treat --important, original philosophy that is also a pleasure to read. Dworkin argues vigorously, imaginatively and elegantly.
   --The Yale Law Review

In a series of beautifully written, mutually supportive essays, Dworkin applies the theory of rights or his own version of the theory to the case of judicial decision-making.
   --The New Republic

The most significant book oil philosophy of law in this decade and surely one of the more interesting ones of the century.
   --Ethics

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.
   --Time Magazine

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.

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• Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
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• A Matter of Principle
• Law's Empire
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