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A long Utilitarian tradition has the ideal of equal regard for all individuals, both those now living and those yet to be born. The literature formalizes this ideal as asking for a preference relation on the space of infinite utility streams that is complete, transitive, invariant to finite...
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corresponds to the duality of procedural versus endstate justice; the tension between these two approaches is highlighted by the … the two approaches coincide for strategyproof mechanisms, and only for those, the justice of the mechanism is equivalent …
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There is far more justice that is not served than served in our criminal justice system. Well more than half of all … offending and victimization fails to make its way into the criminal justice system. An additional share of wrongdoing from … societal factors constrain the administration of justice to respond to criminal wrongs. This Article introduces the idea of …
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takes a bottom up perspective of clients seeking access to justice and uses transaction costs on the market for justice as a … criterion to evaluate justice policies. Most justice is created through ‘justice transactions,’ including informal help from … friends, legal advice, information about law, ADR services, other forms of informal justice, and adjudication. Such …
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This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...
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This paper analyses Rawls's celebrated difference principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a finite and an infinite number of agents. A unified framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a...
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This paper analyses the implications of classical liberal and libertarian approaches for distributive justice in the … relative to intergenerational justice. However, a surprisingly strong and general relation is established between liberal views …
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In this paper, we present a model of deliberation based on Rawls’s political liberalism. Our formalization gives a new perspective on his political theory. Moreover, we obtain quantitative results on political deliberation under Rawlsian rules. Finally, we elaborate two arguments in favor of...
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Consider a population of citizens uniformly spread over the entire plane, that faces a problem of locating public facilities to be used by its members. The cost of every facility is financed by its users, who also face an idiosyncratic private access cost to the facility. We assume that the...
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