Law, Politics, and Responding to Injustice

Coel Kirkby, Wojciech Sadurski, Kevin Walton

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040273968
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Law

This book examines the issue of injustice, and our responses to it, in a range of contemporary contexts.

In her ground-breaking book The Faces of Injustice (1990), Judith Shklar draws attention to our tendency to view injustice as an abnormality. Of course it is not: injustice is ubiquitous. But how should we respond to it? The book brings together leading legal and political theorists to explore the nature of injustice, its relationship to law, and responses to it, in a variety of contexts. Their chapters cover issues such as protest, resistance, violence, the moral obligation to obey the law, civil disobedience, democratic reform, and transitional justice. They all, though, share a concern to examine such issues through a Shklar-inspired focus on injustice.

This book will appeal to academics and advanced students in law, politics, and philosophy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The legal experience of injustice
• 2 A taxonomy of injustice
• 3 Political contempt, divided societies, and transitional justice
• 4 Finding justice between accommodation and refusal
• 5 States of injustice and statuses of legality
• 6 Bringing heaven down to earth: rights and inclusion in Rawlsian public reason
• 7 Beginning from injustice
• 8 Injustice and the moral obligation to obey the law
• 9 Acting together to address structural injustice: a deliberative mini-public proposal
• Index