This note corrects a serious misrepresentation of the views of Ronald Dworkin on the subject of rights, in a recent paper by Richard Pildes. The note makes it clear that Dworkin's theory of rights is based on a conception of limits on the kinds of reason that the state can appropriately invoke...

Unlike many practitioners of the economic analysis of law, Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell take distributional issues seriously: that is, they acknowledge that the choice of a social welfare function (SWF) will involve attention to distributive issues. (The suggestion in their book that notions...