Taking Rights Seriously
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Philosophy of law |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | xv, 293 p |
| ISBN | 0-674-86710-6 |
| OCLC | 2847963 |
| LC Class | K240 .D9 1977 |
Taking Rights Seriously is a 1977 book on philosophy of law by Ronald Dworkin. In this landmark book, Dworkin argues against the dominant philosophy of Anglo-American legal positivism as described by H. L. A. Hart (separate from Continental forms of legal positivism), and utilitarianism by proposing that rights of the individual against the state exist outside of the written law and precede the interest of the majority.
See also
- Dworkin, Law's Empire (1986)
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