The Mandate of DignityA major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the worlds most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkins discomfort with that documents enshrinement of socioeconomic rights, his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy. Beginning with a