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From Theory To Practice I: Passing Judgments Of Exploitation, Mathias Risse, Gabriel Wollner
From Theory To Practice I: Passing Judgments Of Exploitation, Mathias Risse, Gabriel Wollner
San Diego Law Review
In an earlier work, we offered a view on how trade should be treated within a theory of global justice. We proposed an account of exploitation to spell out the nature of the obligations that arise from trading. That account greatly benefits from a detailed development for concrete cases. The goal of this study and its close companion is to explore how our philosophical views help formulate judgments on a range of moral problems that arise from trading and to identify responsibilities of various actors and inform policy responses to instances of exploitation in trade.
To that end we use …
Legitimacy And The International Trade Regime, Thomas Christiano
Legitimacy And The International Trade Regime, Thomas Christiano
San Diego Law Review
Issues of global justice and trade are usually dealt with in terms of what a just system of trade is like and what the distribution of income, opportunities, or welfare ought to be. But the question I address and explore is what a legitimate way of making decisions in the international realm is. This issue has arisen acutely in the case of the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international institutions. In particular, many have complained that developed countries engaged in hard bargaining with developing countries in the conferences that led up to the formation of the …
How To Construct Global Justice, Aaron James
How To Construct Global Justice, Aaron James
San Diego Law Review
Do social relationships between people give rise to any demands of social justice whatsoever? If they do, are they of any practical significance given the relationships living human beings are actually in? And, might they be so significant as to ground a theory of global justice—if not the whole of anything rightly called justice, then at least of the central range of issues in world politics? Finally, could that perhaps be what a political philosophy of global justice should mainly be about?
Here, in bare outline, is how the answers to all of these questions might be “yes,” at least …