A matter of principle
This is a book about fundamental theoretical issues of political philosophy and jurisprudence. In his familiar forceful and incisive style Professor Dworkin guides the reader through a re-examination of some perennial moral, philosophical, and legal dilemmas.
Print Book, English, 1985
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985
Aufsatzsammlung
425 pages ; 25 cm
9780674554603, 9780198255741, 9780674554610, 0674554604, 0198255748, 0674554612
11371794
PART ONE: The Political Basis of Law
Political Judges and the Rule of Law
The Forum of Principle
Principle, Policy, Procedure
Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Protest
PART TWO: Law as Interpretation
Is There Really No Right Answer in Hard Cases?
How Law Is Like Literature
On Interpretation and Objectivity
PART THREE: Liberalism and Justice
Liberalism
Why Liberals Should Care about Equality
What Justice Isn't
Can a Liberal State Support Art?
PART FOUR: The Economic View of Law
Is Wealth a Value?
Why Efficiency?
PART FIVE: Reverse Discrimination
Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair?
What Did Bakke Really Decide?
How to Read the Civil Rights Act
PART SIX: Censorship and a Free Press
Do We Have a Right to Pornography?
The Farber Case: Reporters and Informers
Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?
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