![]() ![]() But let's put that concern aside for now. As we shall see, one of the major debates about distributive justice will call this rough and ready starting point into question, because "liberties, wealth, and income" may be the wrong? target?for theories of distributive justce. As a rough and ready starting point, let's say that distributive justice addresses questions about the distribution or allocation of liberties, wealth, and income. Our topic today is? distributive justice. Procedural justice addresses questions about the fairness of civil and criminal proceedings. Political justice is concerned with issues such as voting rights, democracy, legitimacy, and authority. Corrective justice is concerned with the righting of wrongs: so, in criminal law, we might be concerned with punishing crimes, and in tort law, we could focus on the rectification of wrongfully inflicted harms. (Legal Theory Lexicon 018: Justice) In that entry, we divided the general topic of justice into four parts: (1) distributive justice, (2) corrective justice, (3) political justice, and (4) procedural justice. Context?A prior entry in the? Lexicon?provided a brief overview of the idea of Justice. As always, the? Lexicon?is aimed at law students (especially first-year law students) with an interest in legal theory. Should contract law take distributive consequences into account? Should tort law aim at "risk spreading"? Should the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution be read as guarantee of the equal distribution of rights or resources? In order to answer these and similar questions, we need to have some account of distributive justice? What makes the distribution of liberties, income, and wealth fair? Should the law aim at equality? And if it should, what sort of equality? This entry in the? Legal Theory Lexicon?will provide a brief introduction to distributive justice. Introduction? Distributive justice?is one of the central topics of political philosophy and plays a key role in contemporary debates about normative legal theory. Legal Theory Lexicon 049: Distributive Justice ![]()
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