Ronald Dworkin
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Ronald Myles Dworkin, FBA (December 11, 1931 - February 14, 2013) was an American philosopher and scholar of constitutional law. He was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, and had taught previously at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. An influential contributor to both philosophy of law and political philosophy, Dworkin received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize in the Humanities for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact."
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See also
- American philosophy
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Egalitarianism
- Legal indeterminacy
- Judicial activism
- Legal formalism
- Legal positivism
- List of American philosophers
- Equality
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