philosophy of law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

, law as integrity is a theory of

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

put forward by

Ronald Dworkin Ronald Myles Dworkin (; December 11, 1931 – February 14, 2013) was an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at ...

. In general, it can be described as interpreting the law according to a

community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20111001143024/http://law.queensu.ca/facultyAndStaff/facultyDirectory/walters/legalHumanismAndLawAsIntegrityPublishedEd.pdf *http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9obxh_the-rule-of-law-as-integrity-and-th_news *http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=834&pc=9 *http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lawphil-nature/ *http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/#5.1 *http://theoryofjurisprudence.blogspot.com/2007/12/ronald-dworkin-law-as-integrity.html Philosophy of law Theories of law {{law-stub