Legal-philosophical ideas of Ronald Dworkin’s «Taking rights seriously»

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the analysis of main ideas of the first R. Dworkin’s book, «taking rights seriously»: his opposition to legal positivism, interpretation of human rights in modern world, correlation of law and morals.

Keywords

• human rights
• critique of the legal positivism
• Constitution of the USA
• role of courts in the provision of civic rights and liberties