Lecture by Ronald Dworkin at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. Ronald Dworkin was the Holberg Prize 2007 laureate. The Symposium was held in his honor. Ronald Dworkin is widely regarded as the leading living figure in legal philosophy and also among the few leading figures in political philosophy. He is also a public intellectual as well as an academic philosopher and has written controversial and influential articles on matters of public political controversy for many years, particularly in The New York Review of Books. Dworkin is Jeremy Bentham Professor at University College London and he also occupies the Frank H. Sommer Chair of Law and Philosophy at New York University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and also Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Less