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“... his pragmatic criticism without engaging his economic theories. He strikes intelligently at Ronald Dworkin, whose insistence that prior constitutional principle was responsible for the decision in the abortion case of Roe v. Wade is made the occasion for a demonstration that neither Dworkin or Rawls or anyone ...”

“... liberal political philosophy in the United States in the 1960s, and his reviews of John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin remain some of the most acute there are. But these philosophers started from within. They may have been prompted to write by the establishment of civil rights in the 1960s and the domestic consequences of the Vietnam War, but these events ...”

“... but also assert that liberals cannot say anything reasoned about the virtues. Such liberals – Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, to a large extent John Rawls himself – suggest that liberals can only be ‘agnostic about the good for man’. The friends of virtue and of care conclude that the liberal tradition offers them no footholds. They look to ...”

“... a clause in an asylum bill which would have shut off all judicial review and appeal to the courts. Ronald Dworkin in a lecture in Cambridge had called on the judges, if it was passed into law, to hold it unconstitutional and to treat it as invalid. His suggestion brought into sharp focus the allocation of power between Parliament and the courts, a ...”

“... who favoured the idea of a ‘living constitutionalism’, got off more lightly. One of them, Ronald Dworkin (who had conveniently died in 2013), was even enlisted in Vermeule’s common-good project. Dworkin had understood the importance of identifying the morality underlying a constitution; the problem was that ...”

“... held. Gourmands of irony can enjoy the response to these events in the New York Review of Books by Ronald Dworkin, high priest of liberal moralism and exponent of the view that politics should be circumscribed by judicial ‘principle’ as interpreted by judges. Dworkin declares that the Supreme Court justices made a ...”

“... closely enough. The most prominent defenders of Realism today – Thomas Nagel, T.M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin and Derek Parfit – explicitly deny that Realism carries the heavy metaphysical burden Kitcher is worried about. According to the Naturalist, all genuine truths correspond to states of affairs of the spatio-temporal world. Ethical statements ...”

“... to law. To name names is invidious, but the one that irrepressibly suggests itself is that of Ronald Dworkin, whose claim to be the doyen of the legalist school is probably the strongest. Dworkin, who’s never been one to see the difference between magisterial prose and a sound argument, is an exponent of a ...”

“... an elaborate legal example, and her view is notably indebted to the jurisprudential writings of Ronald Dworkin. A sceptic might claim that our beliefs about what ought to be done are all false because it is impossible that there could be a coherent account of the relations among our specific values. Hurley considers and rejects an argument along these ...”

“... the needs of others, but also that it prevents us from disposing of them as we will. There is, as Ronald Dworkin puts it, ‘a prophylactic line that comes close to making the body inviolate’. The line is not easily crossed in either direction. There is perhaps no better example of the working of the ‘immunitary paradigm’ than the fact that one ...”

“... is one, on which fundamentally different positions of principle can legitimately be taken. Ronald Dworkin has persuasively defended reverse discrimination both on the grounds of concern and respect which inform his theory of justice and on utilitarian grounds. But, as he acknowledges, principles can be misappropriated. How would we react if the ...”

“... a form of expression – for instance, because it purports to be ‘art’. Some people, the late Ronald Dworkin included, have taken this claim far more seriously than it deserves; Dworkin even argued that there is a constitutional right to publish pornography. Before photo-reprographic technology developed, most porn ...”

“... that it is introducing the present constitutional reforms.’ In a major lecture in Cambridge, Ronald Dworkin put forward grounds of principle on which the courts would be entitled, even bound, not to implement the clause if it became law. There was widespread concern among lawyers and judges at a measure which seemed unconstitutional in the serious ...”

“... needs.’ Just a decade later, however, the liberal Laurence Tribe, paraphrasing the liberal Ronald Dworkin, wrote: ‘We are all originalists now.’ That’s even truer today. Where yesterday’s generation of constitutional scholars looked to philosophy – Rawls, Hart, occasionally Nozick, Marx or Nietzsche – to interpret the ...”

“... are being invited to think about rights that other people have as well as themselves. Not long ago Ronald Dworkin concluded a public lecture by remarking that one human right nobody could contemplate taking away was the right to listen to music. The Hampshire project gets children to think about the question that sprang to my mind: does that include loud ...”