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Forty years ago, in his landmark work "A Theory of Justice", the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons. This title features important and influential theories of justice from the 'post Rawlsian' era.

The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. Justice and the Capabilities Approach is the first work of its kind to publish in one place the most influential essays in the field covering a number of topics, including constitutional law, cosmopolitanism, distributive justice, the family, feminism, global justice, human rights, poverty, and social justice. The collection should help inform both scholars and students coming to the study of the capabilities approach for the first time of both the importance and complexity of the wider debate, as well as shed light on how the approach might be further improved and applied.

Includes articles that engage with major theoretical questions such as the applicability of the ideals of social and economic equality to the global sphere, the degree of justified partiality to compatriots, and the nature and extent of the responsibilities of the affluent to address global poverty and other hardships abroad.

A central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society. This volume includes both seminal and recent work by philosophers, covering a range of representative positions, including libertarian, egalitarian, desert, and welfare theorists.

The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. This work presents essays in the field covering topics such as: constitutional law, cosmopolitanism, distributive justice, the family, global justice, human rights, poverty, and social justice.

A collection of essays that brings together the very best philosophical and legal writings on procedural justice. It features articles that deal with the distinctive branch of justice that involves norms and processes of applying law to citizens.

Addresses questions such as: What is the status of people now deceased and people who may exist in the future? What duties of justice do we have towards people with whom we can neither interact nor co-operate, and can people who are indirect victims of past injustices legitimately claim compensation?