Justice

Working Conference: March 2007

Most contemporary philosophical approaches to justice focus on institutions and the political procedures that are necessary to confer legitimacy on governmental structures. Little explicit attention is given to the question of whether it is necessary to ground such procedures in anything more fundamental.

In March 2007 IASC hosted a symposium of international scholars to focus attention on this question, through the lens of IASC Senior Fellow Nicholas Wolterstorff’s forthcoming book, Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton University Press).  Participants came from a variety of disciplines and included Richard Bernstein (The New School for Social Research), Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School), Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa), Oliver O’Donovan (University of Edinburgh), Charles Reid (University of St. Thomas), Miroslav Volf (Yale Divinity School), Chris Eberle (U.S. Naval Academy), and Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame).