Law Politics and Responding to Injustice

<p>This book examines the issue of injustice and our responses to it in a range of contemporary contexts.</p><p>In her ground-breaking book <i>The Faces of Injustice</i> (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 explore the nature of injustice its relationship to law and responses to it in a variety of contexts. Their chapters cover issues such as protest resistance violence the moral obligation to obey the law civil disobedience democratic reform and transitional justice. They all though share a concern to examine such issues through a Shklar-inspired focus on injustice.</p><p>This book will appeal to academics and advanced students in law politics and philosophy.</p><p>The Open Access version of the Introduction available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.</p><p>The Open Access version of the introduction was funded by University of Sydney Library.</p>