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Justice and authority in the global order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

TERRY NARDIN
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Abstract

The global justice debate has largely ignored law. But that debate presupposes a legal order within which principles of justice could be implemented. Paying attention to law alters our understanding of global justice by requiring us to distinguish principles that are properly prescribed and enforced within a legal order from those that are not. Given that theories of global governance depreciate law and that cosmopolitan and confederal theories are utopian, the most promising context for a realistic global justice discourse is one that is focused on strengthening, not transcending, the international legal order.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , December 2011 , pp. 2059 - 2072
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 2011

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