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  2. Ronald Dworkin - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Dworkin was born in 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Madeline (Talamo) and David Dworkin. [8] His family was Jewish.He graduated from Harvard University in 1953 with an A.B., summa cum laude, where he majored in philosophy and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year.

  3. Interpretivism (legal) - Wikipedia

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    This is the opposite of the main claim of natural law theory. In the English-speaking world, interpretivism is usually identified with Ronald Dworkin's thesis on the nature of law as discussed in his text titled Law's Empire, which is sometimes seen as a third way between natural law and legal positivism.

  4. Law's Empire - Wikipedia

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    Law's Empire is a 1986 text in legal philosophy by Ronald Dworkin, in which the author continues his criticism of the philosophy of legal positivism as promoted by H.L.A. Hart during the middle to late 20th century.

  5. Hart–Dworkin debate - Wikipedia

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    The Hart–Dworkin debate is a debate in legal philosophy between H. L. A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin. At the heart of the debate lies a Dworkinian critique of Hartian legal positivism, specifically, the theory presented in Hart's book The Concept of Law. While Hart insists that judges are within bounds to legislate on the basis of rules of law ...

  6. Taking Rights Seriously - Wikipedia

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    Taking Rights Seriously is a 1977 book about the philosophy of law by the philosopher Ronald Dworkin.In the book, Dworkin argues against the dominant philosophy of Anglo-American legal positivism as presented by H. L. A. Hart in The Concept of Law (1961) and utilitarianism by proposing that rights of the individual against the state exist outside of the written law and function as "trumps ...

  7. Income inequality metrics - Wikipedia

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    As described in a section below, Theil-L is an income-distribution's dis-entropy per person, measured with respect to maximum entropy (which is achieved with complete equality). (In an alternative interpretation of it, Theil-L is the natural-logarithm of the geometric-mean of the ratio: (mean income)/(income i), over all the incomes.

  8. Indeterminacy debate in legal theory - Wikipedia

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    Mark Tushnet, Critical Legal Theory (without Modifiers) in the United States, 13 (1) Journal of Political Philosophy 99 (2005). A.D. Woozley, No Right Answer, Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence (M. Cohen, ed., London: Duckworth, 1984). Quentin du Plessis, Sources of Legal Indeterminacy, 138 South African Law Journal 115 (2021).

  9. Luck egalitarianism - Wikipedia

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    Luck egalitarianism is a view about egalitarianism [1]: 10 espoused by a variety of egalitarian and other political philosophers.According to this view, justice demands that variations in how well-off people are should be wholly determined by the responsible choices people make and not by differences in their unchosen circumstances.