Dworkin

Dworkin is speaking from a USA perspective, where "liberal" is often used to mean what we would call "social democrat", but even so, this can be held up as evidence against some of the re-writing of history that is common these days.

The central philosophical challenge for modern Liberals 2009

If you will forgive me some gross caricatures, a comparison of Birks with Posner and Dworkin is instructive, for I believe each exemplifies different ways of thinking about the law.

Balkinization 2007

If Dworkin is right about the original meaning of the First Amendment (or BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION), then legal formalists are in the same boat as legal realists.

Balkinization 2006

If Dworkin is right about the original meaning of the First Amendment (or BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION), then legal formalists are in the same boat as legal realists.

Balkinization 2006

You can also attack Dworkin from the cosmopolitan end: why is the scope limited to a political community.

Basic Structures and Equal Concern 2006

Dworkin is a much more accessible polemicist, but she is also much less visible outside feminist circles.

Feminists Against the First Amendment 1992

Dworkin is a much more accessible polemicist, but she is also much less visible outside feminist circles.

Feminists Against the First Amendment 1992

Apparently, in Dworkin’s new book, he lays out a case, grounded in human dignity, for a strong presumption against the use of torture — so strong that it should be thought of as a kind of “trump,” obviating any kind of cost-benefit calculation on a case-by-case basis.

When Is a Side Constraint Not a Side Constraint? 2006

But it’s by linking to that article that she called Dworkin a liar.

Link Farm and Open Thread #7 2006

Within a day or two of Andrea Dworkin’s death, in her opportunistic and self-serving “memorial”, as she had in the past when it happened, publicly, she called Dworkin’s report of having been raped while in a hotel abroad a lie and referred to Dworkin’s report of having been raped as evidence of Dworkin having had a “mental breakdown.”

Link Farm and Open Thread #7 2006