The paper explores the connection between the notions of justice and justification, and explains why their full … comprehension enhances the legitimacy of the EU's 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' (AFSJ) project. The paper argues that the … notion of justice, despite its contested nature, offers a helpful lens for viewing the AFSJ as part of the EU constitutional …

Justice is a contested concept. A more graspable version of it, it is argued in this paper, is an understanding of it … in the context of what is deemed as 'injustice' rather than justice. As such, the paper takes a markedly different … justice in an EU that continues to be driven by a market mentality. There will always remain a gap between the aspiration for …