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《自由的法：對美國憲法的道德解讀》收入了作者羅奈爾得·德沃金從1989年至1996年幾年間所寫的法哲學論文和判例評論。全書內容分為三個部分，討論了近20年來幾乎所有的重大憲法爭議，如墮胎權、安樂死、同性戀、糾正歧視措施、色情文學、種族衝突、言論自由，等等。書中引用了很多經典的美國最高法院的判例，這些判例都確立影響至今的憲法性原則，比如紐約時報訴沙利文案，它提出了“公共人物”的說法，該提法限制了

Ronald Dworkin argues that Americans have been systematically misled about what their Constitution is, and how judges decide what it means. The Constitution, he observes, grants individual rights in extremely abstract terms. The First Amendment prohibits the passing of laws that "abridge the freedom of speech"; the Fifth Amendment insists on "due process of law"; and the Fourteenth Amendment demands "equal protection of the laws" for all persons. What does that abstract language mean when it is applied to the political controversies that divide Americans--about affirmative action and racial justice, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, censorship, pornography, and homosexuality, for example? Judges, and ultimately the justices of the Supreme Court, must decide for everyone, and that gives them great power. How should they decide?Dworkin defends a particular answer to that question, which he calls the moral reading of the Constitution. He argues that the Bill of Rights must be unde

This book examines American solitary confinement – in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time – and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a