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LAWS 4101

Contemporary Justice Theories

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Selected major contemporary theories of justice such as those associated with Rawls, Walzer, and Habermas, with emphasis on both their procedural and substantive elements and their concrete ramifications for law, policy and political practice.

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Course catalogue

2026

Readings

  • none September 14, 2026 Optional Readings:
  • Baehr, Peter. Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology’s Heritage. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey – 2002. (p 5-40)
  • 6 LAWS 4101 B Fall 2026 Unclassified | Non classifié
  • Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice [revised edition].
  • The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge – 1971 [1999].
2025

Readings

  • John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Erin Kelly ed. (Cambridge, M. A.: Harvard Belknap Press, 2001), Sections 1-16, 23-25.
  • Samuel Freeman, ‘Introduction: John Rawls – An Overview’ in The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1-52.
  • John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Erin Kelly ed. (Cambridge, M. A.: Harvard Belknap Press, 2001), Sections 9, 11, 58-59.
  • John Rawls, ‘The Idea of Public Reason Revisited’, in Samuel Freeman ed., John Rawls: Collected Papers (Cambridge, M. A.: Harvard University Press, 1999), 573-615.
  • John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Erin Kelly ed. (Cambridge, M. A.: Harvard Belknap Press, 2001), Sections 47, 54- 57.

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): LAWS 2908 or PAPM 3000 and fourth-year Honours standing. Seminars three hours a week.

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