Justice

Governance and equity in the development and deployment of negative emissions technologies

by Duncan McLaren

Presented at the Lund Conference on Earth Systems Governance, April 18-20 2012

This paper draws on a recent global assessment of carbon dioxide removal (or negative emissions) technologies (NETs)... more This paper draws on a recent global assessment of carbon dioxide removal (or negative emissions) technologies (NETs) undertaken by the author for Friends of the Earth in the UK. Alongside criteria such as cost and technical readiness, the review applied criteria regarding controllability, accountability and side effects (including distributional impacts) to around 30 prospective NETs found in the literature.

It presents a summary of results of the assessment, and in particular, focuses on the environmental justice and governance issues identified as arising from the development of NETs. NETs could have major implications for intergenerational equity if their development (or potential) permits mitigation to be postponed, and their deployment could have significant distributional impacts between countries or groups.

Three major concerns are discussed. First, the potential moral hazard arising from the development of NETs, and possible mechanisms to limit the implications of moral hazard both within and beyond carbon markets. Second, the challenges arising from the distribution (and potential limits to the overall availability) of geological storage for carbon dioxide. And third, the implications of competition for biological productivity for negative emissions through biotic technologies (eg tree burial) or through the application of carbon capture and storage techniques to bioenergy.

The paper also reflects on the selection, definition and application of the assessment criteria to derive potential lessons for the governance of current and future geoengineeering research, development and deployment.

Justicia como virtud artificial en David Hume. Elementos para una teoría psico-social de la acción

by Ana Marta González

Pensamiento, pp. 97-127, 2008. ISSN 0031-4749

Justicia como virtud artificial en David Hume. Elementos para una teoría psico-social de la acción

by Ana Marta González

Pensamiento, pp. 97-127, 2008. ISSN 0031-4749

Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications

by Mark Singer

Tandem works include: "Seminal Ethics," "Kant Concept Art," "More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

This paper includes the "Possibility Implications" of the Kantian, Machiavellian, and Nietzschean Ethical Standards.

Law: Lex vs. Ius

by Eric Engle

The Notion of Justice in _The Merchant of Venice_

by Tuba Geyikler Terci

Co-authored with Emre Cumalıoğlu, PhD.

Justicia (Borrador del rastreo de un concepto)

by Diana Monroy-García

Ejercicio de rastreo en los cambios del concepto "Justicia" Ejercicio de rastreo en los cambios del concepto "Justicia"

Truth and Justice When Fear and Repression Remain: An Open Letter to Dr Kanit Na Nakorn

by Tyrell Haberkorn

Published in _Bangkok May 2010: Perspectives on a Divided Thailand_. Edited by Michael J. Montesano, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, and Aekapol Chongvilaivan. Singapore: ISEAS, 2011. Pages 42-54.

More Seminal Ethics Implications

by Mark Singer

Tandem works include: "Seminal Ethics," "Kant Concept Art," "Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

These implications are: moral, epistemology, love, happiness, time and space, psychological, art, education, medical, economic, war, capital punishment, and abortion.

"Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" includes additional categories.

La corrupción del Estado

by Fernando Filgueiras

Chapter published in MARQUEZ-FERNADES, Alvaro; DIAZ-MONTIEL, Zulay (eds.)."Justicia Social Emancipatoria, Democracia Ciudadana y Crisis del Estado". Buenos Aires: Aleph, 2010.

State, justice, and recognition

by Fernando Filgueiras

Published in Análise Social - University of Lisboa.

This article investigates, from a normative critique, the liberal perspective and the communitarian perspective of the... more This article investigates, from a normative critique, the liberal perspective and the communitarian perspective of the concept of justice, speculating on the role of the state in contemporary democracies. The investigation of the liberal perspective and
the communitarian perspective of the concept of justice tend to indicate a republican critique of the depoliticisation process promoted by the concept of political justice and social justice. This article advocates a political conception of justice based on
the existence of a republican state and the popular image of the origin of constitutional principles and rules.

Measure for Measure: On Law and Forgiveness

by Hans Petter Graver

Published in Dialogues on Justice (2012)
Ed. by Porsdam, Helle / Elholm, Thomas

Il diritto all'eguale libertà

by Mario Ricciardi

Published in "La Rivista dei Libri", Luglio 2005

This is a review of Ian Carter's Italian book on liberal equality This is a review of Ian Carter's Italian book on liberal equality

Virtue, Justice, and Moral Action in Shakespeare's Hamlet

by Unhae Langis

Delight meditant, offense searchant, wit allurant and freewill rampant Or Law and Justice, the servant-monster Caliban

by Jacques Coulardeau

Ben Jonson annonce la couleur dès son Introduction de Bartholomew Fair avec son accord entre l’auteur et le public scellé par le paiement du droit d’entrée et par les applaudissements. Un des points de cet accord est celui-ci :
« It is further covenanted, concluded and agreed, That how great soever the expectation be, no person here is to expect more than he knows, or better Ware than a Fair will afford: neither to look back to the Sword and Buckler-age of Smithfield, but content himself with the present. » (The Induction on the Stage, 101-105)

Il n’y a certes pas inconsistance griveleuse car les acteurs ne vont pas plus loin que chez Shakespeare et les auteurs... more Il n’y a certes pas inconsistance griveleuse car les acteurs ne vont pas plus loin que chez Shakespeare et les auteurs élisabéthain, et que le grivois, l’obscène même est attribué aux marionnettes qui ont ce privilège. La place dans l’histoire est bien plus intéressante et difficile à trancher, si même on doive la trancher. Reflet d’un adoucissement de la justice et donc des châtiments corporels et capitaux. Cela est probable. John Stubbs fut le dernier amputé de la main. Les hérétiques de 1611 furent les derniers brûlés. Certes les pendaisons spectaculaires (j’entends avec fioritures barbares) ne sont pas encore terminées, et la peine de mort par pendaison est loin d’être abandonnée. La décapitation n’est pas non plus terminée. Il semble bien qu’il y ait un adoucissement de certains châtiments, mais le changement majeur est que le souverain est en train de perdre son pouvoir discrétionnaire de justice, raison de plus l’évêque de Londres ou l’archevêque de Canterbury. On est encore loin de la Bill of Rights (1689) qui établira l’égalité devant la justice et le jugement par jury. Mais il y a bien avancée dans cette direction. On notera même que le conflit entre les puritains et Charles I au niveau de la « Court of Star Chamber » (abolie en 1641 par le Parlement) qui est justement un tribunal, et même peut-être plus, non contrôlé par le Parlement, donc une institution de privilège royal, allait commencer avec l’accession au trône de Charles I (1625) et mener entre autres à la crise que l’on appelle souvent une révolution, la république du Commonwealth. En même temps la pièce ne peut apparaître, puisque la réalité n’a pas encore radicalement changée, que comme un appel à une plus grande clémence et justice. L’allusion à Dionysos en liaison avec les héros mythiques que sont Damon et Pythias va entièrement dans ce sens même si l’interruption par Busy montre le danger puritain, même si l’interruption par le Juge Overdo montre le danger royal, même si l’interruption par Quarlous qui semble représenter les modérés dans la classe bourgeoise enterrent par sa répétition ternaire la cause concernée qui ne sera donc pas entendue. Mais c’est justement l’esprit de la Bartholomew Fair qui l’emporte : on est là pour faire la fête pas pour faire l’histoire. Cela rejoint totalement T.S. Eliot, même si cela frustre terriblement un public moderne potentiel, sauf à faire de cette pièce une farce à mi-chemin entre la Commedia dell’arte et le spectacle théâtral de ces clowns de scène qui prospèrent du côté de Lille avec les Clowns du Prato ou du côté de Marseille avec le Cartoun Sardines Théâtre. Ben Jonson mérite une réévaluation et probablement une renaissance.

Arguing from identity: ontology to advocacy in Charles Taylor's political thought.

by Sam Sadian

Citizenship without Respect: The EU's Troubled Equality Ideal

by Dimitry Kochenov

Jean Monnet Working Paper (NYU Law School) No. 08/10 http://centers.law.nyu.edu/jeanmonnet/papers/10/100801.html

The European Union suffers from an empty formalistic reading of the principle of equality when dealing with situations... more The European Union suffers from an empty formalistic reading of the principle of equality when dealing with situations where different legal orders legitimately compete, aspiring to regulate the condition of the same persons in the same circumstances. Consequently, equality before the law is not safeguarded in the Union, and a radical reform of the procedural reading of the principle of equality is required. Most importantly, to live up to being a true principle of EU law, equality in the EU needs to acquire a substantive component which is entirely missing at the moment. This paper looks at the procedural vistas informing the ECJ’s attempts to address the EU’s fundamental problems through the redefinition of the scope ratione materiae of EU law following the introduction of Union citizenship, only to find the outcomes of such efforts inadequate and potentially dangerous for the rule of law in Europe. It is suggested that a substantive approach to equality could be employed instead, and that the idea of respect, lying just as equality itself, at the core of the notion of citizenship – and the law as such – could supply the missing core of the equality principle, providing the much-needed cure for some crucial deficiencies of EU law as it currently stands.

Caring for the Canary: Religion and the Political Economy of Health

by James R. Cochrane

Compliance with Just Institutions

by zoltan miklosi

published in 'Social Theory and Practice" (2008)

You'll Get What is Coming to You: Why is the Just-World Hypothesis Cognitively Conjoined with Afterlife Beliefs

by K. Mitch Hodge

This paper was submitted to Religion, Brain, and Behavior on 05 March 2012 in slightly revised form.
(manuscript in production) DO NOT CITE OR QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.

In the decade since Bering (2002) revealed that humans intuitively believe in an afterlife, a growing body of research... more In the decade since Bering (2002) revealed that humans intuitively believe in an afterlife, a growing body of research has contributed to understanding the nature of that belief. What has received little-to-no attention is why the afterlife, cross-culturally, is imagined to be a just place. In this article, the author offers experimental and theoretical evidence which supports a cognitive explanation for this phenomenon. The author argues that the conjunction of the just-world hypothesis (that people get what they morally deserve) with afterlife beliefs is over determined by a number psychological and cognitive mechanisms.