What is Ronald Dworkin?
[[File:Ronald Dworkin at the Brooklyn Book Festival.jpg|thumb|200px|Dworkin in September 2008.]] '''Ronald Myles Dworkin''', <small>[[British Academy|FBA]]</small> (December 11, 1931 &ndash; February 14, 2013) was an [[Americans|American]] [[philosopher]] and [[scholar]] of [[United States constitutional law|constitutional law]]. He was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at [[New York University]] and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at [[University College London]]. He also taught at [[Yale Law School]] and the [[University of Oxford]]. He was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]]. Dworkin died from [[leukemia]] on February 14, 2013 in [[London]], [[England]]. He was 81 years old. He was outlived by his second wife, two children and two grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ronald Dworkin, Legal Scholar, Dies at 81|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/02/14/world/europe/ap-eu-britain-obit-dworkin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 14, 2013|accessdate=March 24, 2014|archive-date=March 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328085301/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/02/14/world/europe/ap-eu-britain-obit-dworkin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0|url-status=dead}}</ref> Awards: he won the [[Balzan Prize]] (2012). ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} * {{IMDb name|2621221}} {{US-biography-stub}}{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dworkin, Ronald}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:New York University faculty]] [[Category:American philosophers]] [[Category:Writers from Providence, Rhode Island]] [[Category:Academics of the University of London]] [[Category:Yale University faculty]]