Books in the The Library of Essays on Justice series

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?

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.

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.