Volume 34, Number 4 · March 12, 1987
Advice for 'Judge and Company'
By Thomas C. Grey
Law's Empire
by Ronald Dworkin
Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 470 pp., $20.00
Introducing his first book a decade ago, Ronald Dworkin proposed to work out a new liberal theory uniting law with political morality. This was necessary, he argued, because of the inadequacies of what he called 'the ruling theory'—the disjointed combination of legal positivism and political-moral utilitarianism formulated by Jeremy Bentham and developed by such successors as John Austin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and H.L.A. Hart.[1]
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