Problems in Legal and Political Philsophy

FAIN: FP-10161-77

Ronald M. Dworkin
New York University (New York, NY 10012-1019)

To examine traditional jurisprudence (the problem of the nature of law), the alleged subjectivity of moral and certain legal judgments, the question of whether judges make law rather than find it, the existence of a general theory of social justice as the philosophy of the American political and legal structure, and individual human rights as part of the philosophical support for the American legal structure.