ABSTRACT
The proliferation of such questions signals that not only are the answers likely to be many and contested, but also that there is a wide range of contested questions too. For example: should all relations be considered as amenable to applying principles of justice: parenting, say, or the treatment of animals? Do citizens of one state owe duties of justice to citizens of another? Should law always be used to establish and regulate matters of justice? Can law do justice to justice? Or should talk about ‘justice’ even be superseded by alternative approaches? For is it not the case that ideas, and practices of proclaimed justice have readily co-existed with the reality of extensive exploitation and discrimination: against women, racial groups, the poor, and so on? Or is this observation precisely why we need to work harder at the problems – to do justice better?
