The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin

Author: Wil Waluchow; Stefan Sciaraffa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190466411
Published In: July 2016
Format: Hardback
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This book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin.

They provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Dworkin's accomplishments focusing on his work in all branches of philosophy, including his theory of value, political philosophy, philosophy of international law, and legal philosophy. The book's organizing principle and theme reflect Dworkin's self-conception as a builder of a unified theory of value, and the broad outlines of his system can be found throughout the book.

The first section addresses the most abstract and general aspect of Dworkin's work-the unity of value thesis. The second section explores Dworkin's contributions to political philosophy, and discusses a number of political concepts including authority, civil disobedience, the legitimacy of states and the international legal system, distributive justice, collective responsibility, and Dworkin's master value of dignity and the associated values of equal concern and respect.

The third section addresses various aspects of Dworkin's general theory of law. The fourth and final section comprises accounts of the structure and defining values of discrete areas of law.

Contributors

Wil Waluchow and Stefan Sciaraffa, Editors' Introduction

Part I

The Unity of Value

1. A Hedgehog's Unity of Value

Joseph Raz

Part II

Political Values: Legitimacy, Authority, and Collective Responsibility

2. Political Resistance for Hedgehogs

Candice Delmas

3. Ronald Dworkin, State Consent and Progressive Cosmopolitanism

Thomas Christiano

4. To Fill or Not To Fill Individual Responsibility Gaps? Some Reflections on a Dworkin-Inspired Problem

François Tanguay-Renaud

5. Inheritance and Hypothetical Insurance

Daniel Halliday

Part III

General Jurisprudence: Contesting the Unity of Law and Value

6. Putting Law in Its Place

Lawrence G. Sager

7. Dworkin and Unjust Law

David Dyzenhaus

8. The Grounds of Law

Luís Duarte d'Almeida

9. Immodesty in Dworkin's 'Third' Theory: Modest Conceptual Analysis, Immodest Conceptual Analysis, and the Lines Dividing Conceptual and Other Kinds of Theory of Law

Kenneth Einar Himma

10. Imperialism and Importance in Dworkin's Jurisprudence

Michael Giudice

11. A Theory of Legal Obligation

Christopher Essert

Part IV

Value in Law

12. Originalism and Constructive Interpretation

David O. Brink

13. Was Dworkin an Originalist?

Larry Alexander

14. The Moral Reading of Constitutions