Dworkin, Ronald

A matter of principle / Ronald Dworkin. - Reprinted 2001 - 425 pages ; 25 cm



PART ONE: The Political Basis of Law --Political Judges and the Rule of Law -- The Forum of Principle -- Principle, Policy, Procedure -- Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Protest -- PART TWO: Law as Interpretation -- Is There Really No Right Answer in Hard Cases? -- How Law Is Like Literature -- On Interpretation and Objectivity -- PART THREE: Liberalism and Justice -- Liberalism -- Why Liberals Should Care about Equality -- What Justice Isn't -- Can a Liberal State Support Art? -- PART FOUR: The Economic View of Law -- Is Wealth a Value? -- Why Efficiency? -- PART FIVE: Reverse Discrimination -- Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair? -- What Did Bakke Really Decide? -- How to Read the Civil Rights Act -- PART SIX: Censorship and a Free Press -- Do We Have a Right to Pornography? -- The Farber Case: Reporters and Informers -- Is the Press Losing the First Amendment?

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Political questions and judicial power--United States
Jurisprudence
Law--Political aspects
Constitutional law--Philosophy

21030 politics 41030 philosophical perspectives Political science


Aufsatzsammlung

KF380 / .D96 2001