Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin
A sustained argument for an interpretive theory of legal practice in which judges read statutes, precedents, and political practices as parts of a coherent moral narrative: hard cases are decided by 'constructive interpretation' that balances fit with existing legal materials and justification in principles of justice and fairness. The work rejects legal positivism's strict separation of law and morality, portrays judicial decisionmaking as a form of authorship guided by principles that protect individual rights as trumps against aggregate policy goals, and emphasizes integrity, coherence, and moral responsibility as the aims of legal reasoning.
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- 1986
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- 256 pages
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