Structural Injustice and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mantouvalou, Virginia; Wolff, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In developing her conception of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young made a strict distinction between large-scale collective injustice that results from the normal functions of a society, and the more familiar concepts of individual wrong and deliberate state repression. Her ideas have attracted considerable attention in political philosophy, but legal theorists have been slower to consider the relation between structural injustice and legal analysis. While some forms of vulnerability to structural injustice can be the unintended consequences of law, the law also has potential instruments to alleviate some forms of structural injustice.

Structural Injustice and the Law presents theoretical approaches and case studies to show how the concept of structural injustice can aid legal analysis, and how legal reform can, in practice, reduce or even eliminate some forms of structural injustice. The comprehensive and interdisciplinary topics, discussed here by leading law and political philosophy scholars, include the notion of domination, equality and human rights law, legal status, sweatshop labour, labour law, criminal justice, domestic homicide reviews, begging, homelessness, regulatory public bodies and the films of Ken Loach. Drawn together, they build an invaluable resource for legal theorists exploring how to make use of the concept of structural injustice, and for political philosophers looking for a nuanced account of the law's role both in creating and mitigating structural injustice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UCL Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800087385
• Artikelnr.: 70444379

Autorenporträt

Virginia Mantouvalou is professor of human rights and labor law at UCL Faculty of Laws. Jonathan Wolff is the Alfred Landecker professor of values and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a governing body fellow at Wolfson College Oxford.