Interpretive Jurisprudence
- Theory
- Interpretive Jurisprudence
- Jurist
- Ronald Dworkin
- Description
Law contains not only rules but principles; in hard cases judges decide by weighing principles and litigants' rights, so there is a 'right answer' rather than free discretion. Law must be read constructively in its morally best light — 'law as integrity'. A sustained critique of Hart's positivism and the discretion thesis.