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Sally Yates, Ronald Dworkin, And The Best View Of The Law, W. Bradley Wendel
Sally Yates, Ronald Dworkin, And The Best View Of The Law, W. Bradley Wendel
Michigan Law Review Online
What interests me, as a scholar of legal ethics and jurisprudence, is whether Yates got it right when she said the responsibility of a lawyer for the government is to seek justice and stand for what is right, and that the position of the Department of Justice should be informed by the lawyer’s best view of the law. Yates’s claim that legal advice should be informed by the best view of the law sounds very much like the position of Ronald Dworkin. Dworkin argued that a judge should determine the legal rights and duties of the litigants by constructing the …