Dworkin and Grice

Speranza

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/ronald-dworkin-legal-philosopher-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

 

"The two men [Dworkin and Hart] first met when Professor Hart was by happenstance assigned to evaluate Mr. Dworkin’s final examination at Oxford. The American student excited and scared Professor Hart, his biographer, Nicola Lacey, wrote in 2004, referring to Professor Hart by his first name. “Herbert went on to express considerable anxiety about this student’s views for the arguments of ‘The Concept of Law,’ ” she wrote. Professor Dworkin’s later work, she added, amounted to “a devastating critical onslaught” on Professor Hart’s “overschematic account of adjudication.” Years later, when Professor Dworkin succeeded Professor Hart in the Oxford chair of jurisprudence, the older man gave an after-dinner speech quoting from the student paper, which he had saved."

Interestingly, Dworkin apparently never 'read' (as the Brits call it) philo but law at Oxford (*). Similarly, Hart was by some philosophers like Grice _NOT CONSIDERED_ a philosopher when he became prof of jurisprudence!? (* From link above: "After graduating from Harvard, he attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and obtained law degrees from both places.")