Dworkin
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Humanism’s Heirs
Richard Posner is much on my mind these days. Partly that’s due to the excellent “Posner on Posner” extended-profile-and-interview-series by Ronald Collins over at Concurring Opinions (the latest instalment of which is here); partly to my (re)reading a couple of his books on adjudication (How Judges Think and Reflections on Judging); partly to his recent controversial Continue reading
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R.I.P., Ronald Dworkin
“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be just half the trouble. What’s bad is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal; there’s the rub!” Woland’s grim words from Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita ring very true indeed today. Ronald Dworkin’s death this morning comes an absolute shock. Neither nor, I believe, anyone I know was Continue reading
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Right Answer Romantics
I was re-reading F.A. Hayek’s discussion of the common law in Chapters 4 and 5 of Rules and Order, the first volume of his Law, Legislation and Liberty, and was struck by something I had missed when I first read it four years ago while working on a thesis on common-law constitutionalism. When deciding a case Continue reading
Double Aspect 