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RONALD DWORKIN
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Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American philosopher, jurist, and

scholar of United States constitutional law.
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Dr. Héctor Fix- Honorary Doctorate Balzan Prize
Zamudio
It was an international University of Buenos Aires Dworkin received the
Prize of Legal Research awarded Dworkin this Balzan Prize for
doctorate Jurisprudence in Quirinale
Palace, Rome
Biography
• Ronald Dworkin was born on December 11th, 1931 in
Providence, Rhode Island.

• He studied at Harvard University and Oxford where he was a

Rhodes Scholar.

• He then attended Harvard University for Law School.

• After working at a prominent law firm in New York City, he

became a Professor of Law at Yale University.
Professional Positions
• Dworkin became a holder of Wesley N. Hohfeld
Chair of Jurisprudence.

• In 1969, Dworkin was appointed the Chair of

Jurisprudence at Oxford.

• After retiring from Oxford, Dworkin became the

Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University
College London where he consequently became
the Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence.

• Dworkin before death was the Frank Henry

Sommer Professor of Philosophy at New York
University School of Law
Ronald Dworkin

“Moral principle is the foundation

of law.”- Ronald Dworkin
Theory of Law
• Dworkin’s model visualizes a
community governed by a shared
vision of social justice, instead of
individual interests.
• “We will struggle in politics,
but we will march forward
towards a finer sense of fairness,
towards the realization of the
conditions for the flourishing of
individual lives”.
• Under Dworkin’s model, judges
should “implicate these grand
questions if political vision”.
“Integrity is the key to
understanding legal practice.
Law's empire is defined by
attitude, not territory or power
or process.”

- Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin’s Philosophy
• His views represent a reconstruction of traditional natural law theory.

• Believes in the moral content of law.

• Dworkin feels law is (or should be) the union of widely held, consistency
political decisions or judgments.

• Law must be viewed as a political concept and more particularly, as

representing political integrity.

• This concept is infused with political morality since it requires consistency

in the moral choices it represents.
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• Dworkin argues that moral principles that people believe are often wrong. It can even to the extent
that certain crimes can be deemed acceptable if your principles and beliefs are skewed.

• This is what makes Dworkin's theory interpretive. He believes that every situation where people’s
legal rights are in question, the issue is controversial.

• Dworkin believed legal reasoning is an interpretive exercise- to make political and moral sense out
of a difficult situation or case.
A Common Question and Answer
• Why does Dworkin favour social justice over individual in his political integrity
model?

• Dworkin viewed legal reasoning as an interpretive exercise. This makes political

moral sense out of a difficult situation or case. Therefore, law is seen as a political
concept representing political integrity
Ronald Dworkin

“We play with fire and take the

consequences, because the
alternative is cowardice in the
face of the unknown."
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