On Dworkin's Theory Of Justice As Respect For Rights

Ronald Dworkin is one of the most famous and influential jurists of modern America.Dworkin was born in 1931, and graduated from the Law School of Harvard university in1957,then he entered the Supreme court and became the judge Learned Hand's assistant and laterhe worked as a lawer, He had taught as a legal thinker in Yale university, New York universityand Cornell university since 1962, in 1969, he was invited to be the jurisprudence professor ofOxford university, and now he is the law professor of Oxford university and New York university.His wrote some important works such as Taking Rights Seriously, Law's Empire, SovereignVirtue and Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution, etc..This thesis is focusing on Dworkin's theory of justice as respect for fights, It mainlydiscusses Dworkin's theory of justice as respect for fights and falls into five parts. Part onemainly presents the historical background and the theory prerequisites of Dworkin's theory ofjustice as respect for fights. Part two discusses his thought of fights theory. Part three is the mainpart of this thesis.It mainly discusses Dworkin's theory of equality which consists of two basicprinciples of theory of equality, the relation between liberty and equality, and the core of theoryof equality-treats and respect for equality. Part four mainly discusses the difference ofDworkin's theory of justice as respect for rights with John Rawls's theory of justice as fairnessand Robert Noziek's theory of justice as entitlement, the relation between liberty and equality.fights and justice. Part five gives some comments on Dworkin's theory of justice as respect forrights and expects to do something to study Dworkin's theory of justice as respect for rights.