Ronald Dworkin

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1. Ronald Dworkin

   Author of Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution, The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

2. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

3. H. L. A. Hart

   Author of The Concept of Law, Law, Liberty, and Morality, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

4. Joseph Raz

   Author of The Morality of Freedom (Clarendon Paperbacks), The Authority of Law, Value, Respect, and Attachment (The Seeley Lectures)

5. Derek Parfit

   Author of Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks), On What Matters: Volume I, On What Matters, Vol. 2

6. Richard A. Posner

   Author of Overcoming Law, The Problems of Jurisprudence, Frontiers of Legal Theory

7. Michael J. Sandel

   Author of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

8. Will Kymlicka

   Author of Contemporary Political Philosophy, Multicultural Citizenship, Liberalism, Community, and Culture

9. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Moral Luck

10. Christine M. Korsgaard

    Author of The Sources of Normativity, Creating the Kingdom of Ends

11. John Finnis

    Author of Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series), Fundamentals of Ethics

12. Jeremy Waldron

    Author of Theories of Rights (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Law and Disagreement, Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981-1991 (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

13. Jeremy Bentham

    Author of The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy), Bentham: A Fragment on Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

14. John Ely

    Author of Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review

15. Martha C. Nussbaum

    Author of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (The Public Square), Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

16. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Four Essays on Liberty, Concepts and Categories

17. G. A. Cohen

    Author of Karl Marx's Theory of History, If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?

18. Lon L. Fuller

    Author of The Morality of Law

19. Michael Walzer

    Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality

20. Samuel Scheffler

    Author of Consequentialism and Its Critics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conception