Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU and Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy at University College London. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here? (2006), Justice in Robes, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, and Freedom's Law. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
From the Review
April 30, 2009: Looking for Cass Sunstein
A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before by Cass R. Sunstein
November 6, 2008: A Fateful Election
August 14, 2008: Why It Was a Great Victory
December 6, 2007: 'The Supreme Court Phalanx': An Exchange
October 25, 2007: Lotto for Learning? (letter)
September 27, 2007: The Supreme Court Phalanx
May 31, 2007: The Court & Abortion: Worse Than You Think
November 2, 2006: Darwin and Spirituality: An Exchange
September 21, 2006: Three Questions for America
May 11, 2006: What Lincoln Said (letter)
April 6, 2006: 'The Strange Case of Justice Alito': An Exchange
March 23, 2006: The Right to Ridicule
February 23, 2006: The Strange Case of Judge Alito
February 9, 2006: On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress (letter)
October 20, 2005: Judge Roberts on Trial
November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future
August 12, 2004: What the Court Really Said
November 6, 2003: Terror & the Attack on Civil Liberties
August 14, 2003: The Court & the University: An Exchange
May 15, 2003: The Court and the University
September 26, 2002: Taking Rights Seriously in Beijing
April 25, 2002: The Trouble with the Tribunals
February 28, 2002: The Threat to Patriotism
February 22, 2001: 'A Badly Flawed Election': An Exchange
January 11, 2001: A Badly Flawed Election
December 21, 2000: The Phantom Poll Booth
May 25, 2000: A Question of Ethics (letter)
April 27, 2000: 'An Affair of State': An Exchange
March 9, 2000: Philosophy & Monica Lewinsky
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner
The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory by Richard A. Posner
March 18, 1999: The Wounded Constitution
January 14, 1999: A Kind of Coup
November 5, 1998: Is Affirmative Action Doomed?
October 22, 1998: Affirming Affirmative Action
The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by William G. Bowen, by Derek Bok
November 6, 1997: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: An Exchange
September 25, 1997: Assisted Suicide: What the Court Really Said
May 29, 1997: 'The Philosopher's Brief': An Exchange
March 27, 1997: Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief
October 17, 1996: The Curse of American Politics
August 8, 1996: Sex, Death, and the Courts
Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, 79 F. 3d 790, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1996)
Quill v. Vacco, 80 F. 3d 716, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1996)
Romer v. Evans, 116 S. Ct. 1620, United States Supreme Court (1996)
March 21, 1996: The Moral Reading of the Constitution
August 11, 1994: Mr. Liberty
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge by Gerald Gunther
May 26, 1994: Would Clinton's Plan Be Fair?: An Exchange
March 3, 1994: Pornography: An Exchange
January 13, 1994: Will Clinton's Plan Be Fair?
Health Security Act 103d Congress, 1st Session
October 21, 1993: Women and Pornography
Only Words by Catherine A. MacKinnon
June 10, 1993: Feminism and Abortion
April 8, 1993: Not on the Right (letter)
November 19, 1992: Free Speech and Its Limits (letter)
August 13, 1992: The Center Holds!
June 11, 1992: The Coming Battles over Free Speech
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
November 7, 1991: Justice for Clarence Thomas
August 15, 1991: Liberty and Pornography
August 15, 1991: Revolution in the Court (letter)
July 18, 1991: The Reagan Revolution and the Supreme Court
Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution—A Firsthand Account by Charles Fried
March 28, 1991: 'The Right to Death' (letter)
March 7, 1991: The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh (letter)
January 31, 1991: The Right to Death
September 28, 1989: The Future of Abortion
June 29, 1989: The Great Abortion Case
October 27, 1988: The New England
Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era by Peter Jenkins
December 17, 1987: From Bork to Kennedy
November 5, 1987: The Bork Nomination (letter)
October 8, 1987: 'The Bork Nomination': An Exchange
September 24, 1987: 'Reckless Disregard': An Exchange
August 13, 1987: The Bork Nomination
April 9, 1987: Time's Rewrite (letter)
March 12, 1987: Time's Settlement (letter)
February 26, 1987: The Press on Trial
Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time by Renata Adler
July 17, 1986: Report from Hell
October 24, 1985: The High Cost of Virtue
Morality and Conflict by Stuart Hampshire
February 14, 1985: Reagan's Justice: An Exchange
November 8, 1984: Reagan's Justice
July 21, 1983: 'Spheres of Justice': An Exchange
May 12, 1983: Equality First (letter)
April 14, 1983: To Each His Own
Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer
February 3, 1983: Why Liberals Should Believe in Equality
January 20, 1983: What Liberalism Isn't
Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce A. Ackerman
May 28, 1981: An Exchange on William O. Douglas
February 19, 1981: Dissent on Douglas
Independent Journey: The Life of William O.Douglas by James F. Simon
The Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas
December 4, 1980: Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?
May 15, 1980: How to Read the Civil Rights Act: An Exchange
December 20, 1979: How to Read the Civil Rights Act
June 28, 1979: Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher's Victory
December 7, 1978: The Rights of M.A. Farber: An Exchange
October 26, 1978: The Rights of Myron Farber
October 12, 1978: Soulcraft
The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts by George F. Will
September 28, 1978: Begging the Bakke Question (letter)
August 17, 1978: The Bakke Decision: Did It Decide Anything?
January 26, 1978: The Bakke Case: An Exchange
November 10, 1977: Why Bakke Has No Case
July 15, 1976: The DeFunis Case: An Exchange
February 5, 1976: The DeFunis Case: The Right to Go to Law School
DeFunis versus Odegaard and the University of Washington: The University Admissions Case, The Record edited by Ann Fagan Ginger
October 31, 1974: Did Mill Go Too Far?
On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill by Gertrude Himmelfarb
May 4, 1972: A Special Supplement: The Jurisprudence of Richard Nixon
March 11, 1971: Rights and Interests (letter)
December 17, 1970: A Special Supplement: Taking Rights Seriously
May 22, 1969: Morality and the Law
Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law by H.L.A. Hart
June 6, 1968: On Not Prosecuting Civil Disobedience
March 14, 1968: There Oughta Be a Law
The Lawyers by Martin Mayer
From New York Review Books
 | The Supreme Court Phalanx Ronald Dworkin analyzes the partisan decisions of the current Supreme Court and argues that Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas have created a conservative alliance bent on rewriting constitutional law, leaving past decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and campaign financing vulnerable to reversal in the next several years. |
 | The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (paperback) The papers given at the New York Institute for the Humanities conference collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism. |
 | The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin The two days of discussion preserved here demonstrate the continuing vitality and relevance of Isaiah Berlin's thought in today's social and political debates. |
Books by Ronald Dworkin
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (2000)
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (1996)
Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (1993)
A Bill of Rights for Britain (1990)
The Philosophy of Law (1990)
A Matter of Principle (1985)
Law's Empire (1977)
Taking Rights Seriously (1977)