The Mandate of Dignity: Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice

by Nick Friedman and Drucilla Cornell

Book Overview

A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort with that document's enshrinement of "socioeconomic rights," his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082326811X
• ISBN13: 9780823268115
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"