Editing Ronald Dworkin (section)

==Early life and education==

Ronald Dworkin was born in 1931 in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], the son of Madeline (Talamo) and David Dworkin.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/feb/14/ronald-dworkin|title=Ronald Dworkin obituary|last=Hodgson|first=Godfrey|date=February 14, 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=April 16, 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> His family is [[Jewish]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1953 with an [[A.B.]], ''[[summa cum laude]]'', where he majored in [[philosophy]] and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] in his junior year. He then attended [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] as a [[Rhodes Scholar]], where he was a student of [[Rupert Cross|Sir Rupert Cross]] and [[J. H. C. Morris]]. Upon completion of his final exams at Oxford, the examiners were so impressed with his script that the Professor of Jurisprudence (then [[H. L. A. Hart]]) was summoned to read it. He was awarded a B.A. with a [[Congratulatory first]]. Dworkin then attended [[Harvard Law School]], graduating in 1957 with a [[Juris Doctor]], ''[[magna cum laude]]''.<ref name="Liptak">{{cite news |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=February 14, 2013 |title=Ronald Dworkin, Scholar of the Law, Is Dead at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/ronald-dworkin-legal-philosopher-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226022400/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/ronald-dworkin-legal-philosopher-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=February 26, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>