Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, Ronald Dworkin. Harvard University Press, 511 pages, $35.00. About halfway through Sovereign Virtue, I came across an intriguing paragraph. Ronald Dworkin is discussing Lochner v. New York, an infamous 1905 decision in which a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a statute limiting the […]
Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore. He covers the Supreme Court for theatlantic.com. His book American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution was published in August 2013 by Oxford University Press.