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Discusses a range of fundamental issues about justice. This work addresses issues pertaining to distributive, procedural, and interactional justice using a range of methodologies. It focuses on issues relevant to the processes underlying justice evaluatio

Reparations are often held up in transitional justice as a 'victim-centred' means of dealing with the past. Yet transitional justice has often been criticised for side-lining victims in peace negotiations or for other actors appropriating their voices for their own political ends. As a result, reparations in transitional societies can often be 'transactional', an exchange for concessions made to perpetrators, such as amnesties, or as 'blood money' for victims to forego pursuing accountability. This article explores how the political construction of reparations in transitional justice can come into conflict with more international law understandings of reparations as justice. As such this article argues that reparations in transitional justice have to be better conceptualised as in balancing competing political and legal claims, as well as engage with emerging debates on transformative justice

Abstract:Adam Smith argues that virtue falls into two broad categories: "justice," which he calls a "negative" virtue because it principally comprises restraint from harming or injuring others; and "beneficence," which he calls "positive" because it comprises the actions we ought to take to improve others' situations. Smith's conception of justice is thus quite "thin," and some critics argue that it is indeed too thin, since it fails to incorporate substantive concerns for the well-being of others. In this essay, I lay out Smith's conception of justice and offer a way to understand it that attempts to comprehend the various things he says about it. I then offer a cluster of objections drawing on criticisms that might fall under the heading of "social justice." Finally, I suggest how Smith might respond to the criticisms by outlining a Smithian conception of what I call "ultimate justice."