Thursday, May 07, 2009


Aharon Barak, recently retired President of the Supreme Court of Israel and a towering figure in constitutional, administrative, criminal and international humanitarian law, is also a close colleague of the Faculty of Law and widely admired in the Canadian legal community. Justice Barak holds the highest academic honours in Israel, along with 15 honourary degrees from universities in Israel, Europe, the United States and Canada. He has also won the International Justice in the World prize, granted by the International Association of Judges.
He has been Professor at Harvard and Yale Universities in the U.S, University of Oxford in UK, and at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Ronald Dworkin is an American legal philosopher, and currently professor of Jurisprudence at University College London,the New York University School of Law and at the University of Oxford. His theory of law as integrity is one of the leading contemporary views of the nature of law.


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Ronald Dworkin
Professor of Philosophy, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law
Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-6000
Fax: (212) 995-4179
Email: ronald.dworkin@nyu.edu
BA, Harvard, Oxford; LLB, Harvard

RONALD DWORKIN, Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law. He received BA degrees from both Harvard College and Oxford University, and an LLB from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Learned Hand. He was associated with a law firm in New York (Sullivan and Cromwell) and was a professor of law at Yale University Law School from 1962-1969. He has been Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and Fellow of University College since 1969. He has a joint appointment at Oxford and at NYU where he is a professor both in the Law School and the Philosophy Department. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Dworkin is the author of many articles in philosophical and legal journals as well as articles on legal and political topics in the New York Review of Books. He has written 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). Several of these books have been translated into the major European languages and Japanese and Chinese.

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