1st Edition

Law, Politics, and Responding to Injustice

Edited By Coel Kirkby, Wojciech Sadurski, Kevin Walton Copyright 2025
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the issue of injustice, and our responses to it, in a range of contemporary contexts. In her ground-breaking book The Faces of Injustice (1990), Judith Shklar draws attention to our tendency to view injustice as an abnormality. Of course it is not: injustice is ubiquitous. But how should we respond to it? The book brings together leading legal and political theorists to... Read more

Introduction 

Coel Kirkby, Wojciech Sadurski and Kevin Walton 

1. The Legal Experience of Injustice 

David Dyzenhaus 

2. A Taxonomy of Injustice 

Duncan Ivison 

3. Political Contempt, Divided Societies, and Transitional Justice 

Colleen Murphy 

4. Finding Justice Between Accommodation and Refusal 

Eddie Synot 

5. States of Injustice and Statuses of Legality 

Nicole Roughan 

6. Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: Rights and Inclusion in Rawlsian Public Reason 

Patrick Emerton and Jayani Nadarajalingam 

7. Beginning from Injustice 

Ashwini Vasanthakumar 

8. Injustice and the Moral Obligation to Obey the Law 

Jonathan Crowe 

9. Acting Together to Address Structural Injustice: A Deliberative Mini-Public Proposal 

Ting-An Lin

Biography

Coel Kirkby is Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney Law School, Australia.  

Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School, Australia.

Kevin Walton is Associate Professor at The University of Sydney Law School, Australia.