Dworkin telah menulis berbagai karya penting dalam bidang filsafat hukum dan filsafat politik. Dworkin menerima Holberg International Memorial Prize di bidang Humaniora pada tahun 2007 karena "kontribusi akademiknya yang berdampak secara global".[2] Menurut survei di The Journal of Legal Studies, Dworkin adalah pakar hukum Amerika kedua yang paling banyak dikutip dalam karya ilmiah di abad ke-20.[3] Setelah kematiannya, pakar hukum Harvard, Cass Sunstein, mengatakan bahwa Dworkin adalah "salah satu filsuf hukum paling penting dalam 100 tahun terakhir."[4]
Ia mencetuskan teori hukum sebagai keseluruhan di dalam bukunya yang berjudul Law's Empire. Menurut teori tersebut, hakim perlu menafsirkan hukum sesuai dengan prinsip-prinsip moralitas yang konsisten, terutama keadilan. Dworkin juga menganjurkan agar Konstitusi Amerika Serikat ditafsirkan berdasarkan moralitas.[5] Selain itu, ia mendukung penggunaan pendekatan interpretivisme terhadap hukum dan moralitas.
Karya kesarjanaan
Buku
Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977.
A Matter of Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Law's Empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Philosophical Issues in Senile Dementia. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.
A Bill of Rights for Britain. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Justice in Robes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.
The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc. New York: New York Review Books, 2008.
Justice for Hedgehogs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Religion Without God. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Editor
The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy). Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy. Ed. New York: New Press, 2002.
From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis. Ed. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004.