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A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort with that document's enshrinement of "socioeconomic rights," his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy.Beginning with a critical overview of Dworkin's work culminating in his two principles of dignity, Cornell and Friedman turn to Kant and Hegel for an approach better able to ground the principles of dignity Dworkin advocates. Framed thus, Dworkin's challenge to legal positivism enables a theory of constitutional revolution in which existing legal structures are transformatively revalued according to ethical mandates. By founding law on dignity, Dworkin begins to articulate an ethical jurisprudence responsive to the lived experience of injustice. This book, then, articulates a revolutionary constitutionalism crucial to the struggle for decolonization.

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África

Freedom of religion

Human rights

Comparative law

Africa

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	01 février 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823268139
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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T H E M A N D AT E O F D I G N I T Y

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j u s t i d e a s

transformative ideals of justice in etical and political tougt

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Drucilla Cornell

Roger Berkowitz

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THE MAND AT E OF D IGNITY

RONALD DWORKIN, REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE CLAIMS OF JUSTICE

Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman

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Cornell, Drucilla, autor. he mandate of dignity : Ronald Dworkin, revolutionary constitutionalism, and te claims of justice / Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman. — First edition. pages cm. — (Just ideas) Includes bibliograpical references and index.  ---- (clot : alk. paper) —  ---- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Dworkin, Ronald. . Dignity. . Constitutional law— Sout Africa. . Social justice—Sout Africa. I. Friedman, Nick, – autor. II. Title. .  .—dc 

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to te memory of Ronald Dworkin

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