Series: The Storrs Lectures

The Morality of Law is among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. This is the best discussion of the demands of the rule of law in existing literature. —Robert S. Summers, Journal of Legal Education Throughout...

How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbour? In this book, a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to...