Justice

Justice is an elusive concept whose meaning is contested across disparate institutional contexts and within different schools of thought. Scholarship in the Western tradition, within moral, legal, and political philosophy, and across modernist and postmodernist approaches more generally, is divided on how justice is achieved and for whom, or whether it is even possible to accomplish. While justice is commonly associated with law and criminal justice, it has a much wider scope into the concerns of social justice, encompassing the distribution of social goods and overarching principles of fairness, equality, and rights. How these fundamental rights and goods are distributed within plural societies forms the foundations of different theories and approaches to justice.