Ronald Dworkin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU. His books include Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes, Freedom’s Law, and, most recently, Justice for Hedgehogs. His forthcoming book, Religion Without God, is based on his 2011 Einstein Lectures. He is the 2007 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize for “his pioneering scholarly work” of “worldwide impact.”
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Should Obama’s Health Care Be Opposed?: An Exchange
June 7, 2012
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Why the Mandate Is Constitutional: The Real Argument
May 10, 2012
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The Court’s Embarrassingly Bad Decisions
May 26, 2011
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What Is a Good Life?
February 10, 2011
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The Historic Election: Four Views
December 9, 2010
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The Temptation of Elena Kagan
August 19, 2010
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The Decision That Threatens Democracy
May 13, 2010
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‘The “Devastating” Decision’: An Exchange
April 29, 2010
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The “Devastating” Decision
February 25, 2010
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Justice Sotomayor: The Unjust Hearings
September 24, 2009
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Looking for Cass Sunstein
April 30, 2009
A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before
by Cass R. Sunstein
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A Fateful Election
November 6, 2008
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Why It Was a Great Victory
August 14, 2008
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‘The Supreme Court Phalanx’: An Exchange
December 6, 2007
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Lotto for Learning?
October 25, 2007
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The Supreme Court Phalanx
September 27, 2007
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The Court & Abortion: Worse Than You Think
May 31, 2007
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Darwin and Spirituality: An Exchange
November 2, 2006
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Three Questions for America
September 21, 2006
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What Lincoln Said
May 11, 2006
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‘The Strange Case of Justice Alito’: An Exchange
April 6, 2006
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The Right to Ridicule
March 23, 2006
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The Strange Case of Judge Alito
February 23, 2006
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On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress
February 9, 2006
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Judge Roberts on Trial
October 20, 2005
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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What the Court Really Said
August 12, 2004
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Terror & the Attack on Civil Liberties
November 6, 2003
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The Court & the University: An Exchange
August 14, 2003
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The Court and the University
May 15, 2003
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Taking Rights Seriously in Beijing
September 26, 2002
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The Trouble with the Tribunals
April 25, 2002
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The Threat to Patriotism
February 28, 2002
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‘A Badly Flawed Election’: An Exchange
February 22, 2001
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A Badly Flawed Election
January 11, 2001
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The Phantom Poll Booth
December 21, 2000
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A Question of Ethics
May 25, 2000
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‘An Affair of State’: An Exchange
April 27, 2000
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Philosophy & Monica Lewinsky
March 9, 2000
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
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The Wounded Constitution
March 18, 1999
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A Kind of Coup
January 14, 1999
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Is Affirmative Action Doomed?
November 5, 1998
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Affirming Affirmative Action
October 22, 1998
The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
by William G. Bowen, by Derek Bok
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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: An Exchange
November 6, 1997
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Assisted Suicide: What the Court Really Said
September 25, 1997
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‘The Philosopher’s Brief’: An Exchange
May 29, 1997
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Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief
March 27, 1997
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The Curse of American Politics
October 17, 1996
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The Moral Reading of the Constitution
March 21, 1996
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Mr. Liberty
August 11, 1994
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge by Gerald Gunther
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Would Clinton’s Plan Be Fair?: An Exchange
May 26, 1994
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Pornography: An Exchange
March 3, 1994
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Will Clinton’s Plan Be Fair?
January 13, 1994
Health Security Act 103d Congress, 1st Session
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Women and Pornography
October 21, 1993
Only Words by Catherine A. MacKinnon
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Feminism and Abortion
June 10, 1993
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Not on the Right
April 8, 1993
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Free Speech and Its Limits
November 19, 1992
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The Center Holds!
August 13, 1992
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The Coming Battles over Free Speech
June 11, 1992
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
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Justice for Clarence Thomas
November 7, 1991
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Liberty and Pornography
August 15, 1991
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Revolution in the Court
August 15, 1991
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The Reagan Revolution and the Supreme Court
July 18, 1991
Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan RevolutionA Firsthand Account by Charles Fried
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‘The Right to Death’
March 28, 1991
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The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh
March 7, 1991
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The Right to Death
January 31, 1991
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The Future of Abortion
September 28, 1989
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The Great Abortion Case
June 29, 1989
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The New England
October 27, 1988
Mrs. Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era
by Peter Jenkins
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From Bork to Kennedy
December 17, 1987
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The Bork Nomination
November 5, 1987
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‘The Bork Nomination’: An Exchange
October 8, 1987
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‘Reckless Disregard’: An Exchange
September 24, 1987
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The Bork Nomination
August 13, 1987
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Time’s Rewrite
April 9, 1987
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Time’s Settlement
March 12, 1987
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The Press on Trial
February 26, 1987
Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time by Renata Adler
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Report from Hell
July 17, 1986
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The High Cost of Virtue
October 24, 1985
Morality and Conflict by Stuart Hampshire
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Reagan’s Justice: An Exchange
February 14, 1985
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Reagan’s Justice
November 8, 1984
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‘Spheres of Justice’: An Exchange
July 21, 1983
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Equality First
May 12, 1983
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To Each His Own
April 14, 1983
Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
by Michael Walzer
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Why Liberals Should Believe in Equality
February 3, 1983
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What Liberalism Isn’t
January 20, 1983
Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce A. Ackerman
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An Exchange on William O. Douglas
May 28, 1981
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Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?
December 4, 1980
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How to Read the Civil Rights Act: An Exchange
May 15, 1980
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How to Read the Civil Rights Act
December 20, 1979
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Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher’s Victory
June 28, 1979
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The Rights of M.A. Farber: An Exchange
December 7, 1978
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The Rights of Myron Farber
October 26, 1978
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Soulcraft
October 12, 1978
The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts by George F. Will
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Begging the Bakke Question
September 28, 1978
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The Bakke Decision: Did It Decide Anything?
August 17, 1978
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The Bakke Case: An Exchange
January 26, 1978
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Why Bakke Has No Case
November 10, 1977
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The DeFunis Case: An Exchange
July 15, 1976
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The DeFunis Case: The Right to Go to Law School
February 5, 1976
DeFunis versus Odegaard and the University of Washington: The University Admissions Case, The Record edited by Ann Fagan Ginger
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Did Mill Go Too Far?
October 31, 1974
On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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A Special Supplement: The Jurisprudence of Richard Nixon
May 4, 1972
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Rights and Interests
March 11, 1971
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A Special Supplement: Taking Rights Seriously
December 17, 1970
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Morality and the Law
May 22, 1969
Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law by H.L.A. Hart
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On Not Prosecuting Civil Disobedience
June 6, 1968
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There Oughta Be a Law
March 14, 1968
The Lawyers by Martin Mayer
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Why the Health Care Challenge Is Wrong
April 2, 2012
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Can Obama Extend the Debt Ceiling on His Own?
July 29, 2011
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How FDR Did It
July 7, 2011
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More Bad Arguments: The Roberts Court & Money in Politics
April 27, 2011
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Bad Arguments: The Roberts Court & Religious Schools
April 26, 2011
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Americans Against Themselves
November 5, 2010
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Keep Corporations Out of Televised Politics
October 5, 2009
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The Consequences to Come
September 24, 2008
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The Consequences to Come
September 24, 2008