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The Mandate of Dignity
Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman
Abstract
A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s enshrinement of “socioeconomic rights,” his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy.
Keywords: consitutionalism, dignity, Ronald Dworkin, South Africa, substantive revolution, transformation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823268108 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823268108.001.0001 |
