Ronald Dworkin was an American-British legal and political philosopher who argued that law is inherently moral and that rights are 'trumps' that override utilitarian calculations.
Dworkin attacked legal positivism by arguing that law includes principles as well as rules, and that hard cases have right answers discoverable through Herculean judicial interpretation; in political philosophy, he grounded liberal equality in equal concern and respect rather than welfare or resources.
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