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This is the first book to review Ronald Dworkin's entire body of work in its relevance to constitutional dispensations in the Global South.
About the author
Drucilla Cornell was Professor Emerita of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. With a background in philosophy, law, and grassroots mobilization, she played a central role in the organization of the memorable conferences on deconstruction and justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1989, 1990, and 1993. She was the author of
The Philosophy of the Limit (1992),
Feminism and Pornography (2000), and
Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation (2014). She has also coedited several books:
Feminism as Critique: On the Politics of Gender (1987), with Seyla Benhabib; and
Hegel and Legal Theory (1991) and
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (1992), with David Gray Carlson and Michel Rosenfeld. She was part of a philosophical exchange with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Nancy Fraser entitled
Feminist Contentions (1995). In addition to her academic work, she wrote four produced plays.
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This is the first book to review Ronald Dworkin’s entire body of work in its relevance to constitutional dispensations in the Global South.
