Abstract This paper examines the claim that justice is necessary for a moral obligation to obey law. By reflecting on meaning of obedience, it identifies one version must be right and another wrong. It then focuses argument law most obviously includes claim: John Rawls’s from natural duty justice. More specifically, degree needed this ground

Introduction This paper sets out some preliminary findings which will form part of my PhD thesis on the broad topic of the impact of neoliberalism on access to justice. I am conducting empirical research in order to identify and examine trends in summary justice which appear to have been influenced by neoliberal political ideology, and consider how those trends may have affected the ability of ...

Second generation area-based indices of multiple deprivation have been extensively used in the UK over the last 15 years. They resulted from significant developments in political, technical, and conceptual spheres for deprivation data. We review the parallel development of environmental justice research and how and when environmental data was incorporated into these indices. We explain the tran...

Relationships between empirical and philosophical approaches to the law have not been always peaceful. Agreement seems the most natural way to build up and implementing regulations and justice within human-machine interfaces (natural and artificial societies), and might help to bridge the gap between both theoretical approaches. Recent researches on relational law, relational justice, crowdsour...

Issues surrounding the upcoming presidential election season highlight the need for a better understanding of the relationship between human motivation and political orientation. The neurophysiological trait systems of approach (BAS) and avoidance (BIS) are crucial to understanding human motivation (Gable, Mechin, Hicks, and Adams, 2015). The behavioral inhibition system (BIS) is sensitivity to...

The World Social Forum is an open space-movement that contrasts with the formalist self referred political system of representative democracy and inter-State relations. Its banners, decision-making practices and political culture question the social and political orders of global governance that have traditionally been presented as balanced structures aiming at a predictable and universal mater...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...