Description
An exciting collection of edited works, classic and contemporary, on core issues of justice in America and internationally. Beginning with competing conceptions of justice in political theory, the book then presents writings mounting challenges to fundamental assumptions about distribution of wealth and opportunity within the U.S. and globally. Can property rights be so pervasive they effectively deny basic liberties to those who do not possess any property? Is there any plausible defense for inter-generational transmission of wealth? Should we have open national borders? Are our obligations to impoverished persons on the other side of the world whom we’ve never met as great as our obligations to impoverished persons in our own city? Following these chapters are eight focusing on critical theory and questions of subordination, identity, anti-essentialism, and intersectionality, with chapters devoted to particular groups such as racial minorities, women, sexual minorities, children, the elderly, and animals. The book closes with a chapter inviting, largely through literature and accounts of altruistic behavior, reflection on our personal responsibility to effect justice in the world. 530 pp
SUMMERY OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
Part One: Distributive Justice
Chapter One: Theories of Justice
Chapter Two: Domestic Economic Inequality
Chapter Three: International Economic Inequality
Part Two: Critical Theories
Chapter Four: Critical Legal Studies
Chapter Five: Justice Implications of Relative Ability & Health
Chapter Six: Race
Chapter Seven: Women vs. Men?
Chapter Eight: Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Chapter Nine: Complex Identities and Anti-essentialism
Chapter Ten: Critical Age Theory
Chapter Eleven: Our Relationship With the Non-Human World
Part Three: Personal Responsibility
Chapter Twelve: Living Ethically in the World
AUTHOR: James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the William & Mary School of Law, where he has been on the faculty since 2000. He offers a seminar in Law & Social Justice and also teaches Family Law, Youth Law, and Trusts, and Estates.
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