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."

Calendar

Ronald Dworkin at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford (June 5)

From the Review

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)