Word: dworkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dworkin's theories have created shock waves among jurisprudential scholars, and much of the response is sharply critical. Says Duke University Law Professor George Christie: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions. Actual cases are simply too complicated to abstract into clear rights and clear duties...
...measure of the extent to which Dworkin has succeeded in stimulating his colleagues-whether positively or negatively-is the experience of the Georgia Law Review. The editors solicited articles for a special issue on jurisprudence-and found that virtually every contribution addressed the challenging thoughts of the Yank at Oxford...
Drawings by Elizabeth Dworkin, Lee Newton, Robert Cronin and Andrew Tavarelli are on exhibit through Nov. 19 at MIT's HAYDEN CORRIDOR GALLERY. This gallery is always open...