Striking back at the empire: A brief survey of problems in Dworkin's theory of law [Book Review]

Law and Philosophy 6 (3):419 - 438 (1987)
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In Law's Empire Dworkin remains committed to carving out a middleground between natural law and legal positivism. But natural law andlegal positivism are best viewed as complementary answers to differ-ent questions, There is no middle ground between them. Nor is thequestion that Dworkin's Integrity asks one that could be coherentlyanswered i f it were an important question. Fortunately, it is not

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