Updated from the first edition, this work offers an introduction and critical assessment of Dworkin's contributions to legal and political philosophy. It includes an analysis of Dworkin's work on abortion and euthanasia.
A preliminary sketch; the idea of interpretation; integrity and legal argument; integrity and community; the plain fact view of law; objectivity in law and morality; hard cases I; hard cases II; treating people as equals; equality of what? the basis of liberalism.