Current Topics in Justice

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course examines current topics arising within contemporary theories of justice. Choice of what to include and emphasize will be driven by student interests and emerging debates in the literature. Potential topics include: statist and cosmopolitan theories of justice; distributive justice and relational justice; the assignment of responsibility for structural injustice; the relation between human rights theories and theories of social justice; issues of justice arising from the structure of the global economic order; climate change and other issues of justice pertaining to the global commons; and intergenerational justice.