Taking Rights Seriously (1977)

Ronald Dworkin

Year:	1977
Authors:	Ronald Dworkin
Publishers:	Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Pages:	320
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

Thirteen articles define and defend a theory of law more liberal than the current legal positivism that restricts individual legal rights to those created by political decision or by explicit social practice. The thesis advanced by Dworkin is that people have rights against the state that are prior to those created by legislation.