"Ronald Dworkin, who has died aged 81, was widely respected as the most original and powerful philosopher of law in the English-speaking world."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/feb/14/ronald-dworkin

Ronald Dworkin obituary

Brilliant philosopher of law who put human dignity at the centre of his moral system

• Godfrey Hodgson
• " In his books, his articles and his teaching, in London and New York, he developed a powerful, scholarly exegesis of the law, and expounded issues of burning topicality and public concern – including how the law should deal with race, abortion, euthanasia and equality – in ways that were accessible to lay readers. His legal arguments were subtly presented applications to specific problems of a classic liberalphilosophy which, in turn, was grounded in his belief that law must take its authority from what ordinary people would recognise as moral virtue.e Guardian, Thursday 14 February 2013 08.31 EST