The Mandate of Dignity: Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice

Drucilla Cornell; Nick Friedman

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

The Mandate of Dignity

Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice

Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman

In the series Just Ideas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823268139

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About this book

This is the first book to review Ronald Dworkin’s entire body of work in its relevance to constitutional dispensations in the Global South.

Author / Editor information

Cornell Drucilla :

Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She also teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Pretoria in South Africa.Friedman Nick :

Nick Friedman is a doctoral candidate in legal theory at Oxford University.

Reviews

—Morris Kaplan:
“The Mandate of Dignity is an ambitious undertaking that contributes importantly to ongoing debates within jurisprudence and political philosophy as well as more specific controversies regarding constitutional law and transitional justice in South Africa.”

—David A.J. Richards:
This pathbreaking work puts the revolutionary achievement of the South African Constitution and the interpretive work of the South African constitutional court in the illuminating perspective of the best theory of constitutional interpretation now available, the neo-Kantian theory of equal dignity of Ronald Dworkin. It shows clearly how the work of our best constitutional courts—the South African court among them—is now a common humane enterprise for the protection of universal human rights under the rule of law throughout the world.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Integrity to the Past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
2. The Hegelian Conception of a Properly Constituted Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Law’s Empire in South Africa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. The Quest for Unity of Value Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5. Integrity to Dignity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. Dignity and Responsibility in South African Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 152
Keywords: Revolution; Ronald Dworkin; South Africa; constitutionalism; critical idealism; jurisprudence

eBook

Published: February 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780823268139