Showing posts with label Dworkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dworkin. Show all posts

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin, described in his obituary in The Guardian today as "the most original and powerful philosopher of law in the English-speaking world", has died. You can hear him talking about his last book, Justice for Hedgehogs, in 2011 at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs here. Audio (54 min) with a 14 min. video clip, transcript available. You can find links on this blog to other Dworkin talks here.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Interview with Ronald Dworkin

The BBC programme The Interview with Owen Bennett Jones has an interview this week with Professor Ronald Dworkin (of University College London and New York University) is one of the world's leading philosophers of law. We can hear his views on interpretation of the constitution, abortion, affirmative action, torture.
28 min. BBC iPlayer (or podcast available for download until 31 January) no transcript.

For more Dworkin, go to this site with recordings of the symposium in which he received the Holberg prize.
Also available is a lecture given October 26, 2009 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.  "Is There Truth in Interpretation? Law, Literature and History" either on YouTube or at the Library of Congress site. 1h07 (Dworkin begins at about 10 min.) no transcript.