Philosophy and law expert Ronald Dworkin will speak Feb. 25
The Center for Law, History and Culture is pleased to announce that Ronald Dworkin, professor of philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at New York University, will present the Seventh Annual Law & Humanities Distinguished Lecture, titled “What Makes an Interpretation True?”
Dworkin is one of the most important and influential legal scholars in the world today, writing about law, politics, and morality. He also is professor of jurisprudence at Oxford and fellow of University College.
His major works include Taking Rights Seriously (1977), A Matter of Principle (1985), Law's Empire (1986), Philosophical Issues in Senile Dementia (1987), A Bill of Rights for Britain (1990), Life's Dominion (1993), and Freedom's Law (1996). He writes regularly on legal and political topics in the New York Review of Books as well as in philosophical and legal journals.
Dworkin is the recipient of the Holberg Memorial Prize in the Humanities of the Kingdom of Norway (2007), the Nicolas Luhmann Prize in the Sciences, University of Bielefeld (2007), the Friendly Medal, from the Practicing Law Institute (2006), and the Jefferson Medal, University of Virginia (2006).
The lecture will be held at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 25, at USC Town and Gown. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Julie Davis at (213) 821-1239 or by e-mail. Reservations are strongly recommended.
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