Equal Justice

Justice and equal opportunities in health care.

The principle that each individual is entitled to an equal opportunity to benefit from any public health care system, and that this entitlement is proportionate neither to the size of their chance of benefitting, nor to the quality of the benefit, nor to the length of lifetime remaining in which that benefit may be enjoyed, runs counter to most current thinking about the allocation of resources...

Procedural justice in children: Preschoolers accept unequal resource distributions if the procedure provides equal opportunities.

When it is not possible to distribute resources equitably to everyone, people look for an equitable or just procedure. In the current study, we investigated young children's sense of procedural justice. We tested 32 triads of 5-year-olds in a new resource allocation game. Triads were confronted with three unequal reward packages and then agreed on a procedure to allocate them among themselves. ...

Phd Thesis Summary: Democracy-as-fairness: Justice, Equal Chances and Lotteries

My dissertation lies primarily in the area of normative political philosophy, yet draws from sources as diverse as economics (the desiderata of social choice), moral philosophy (fairness in choosing between groups of people), and ancient history (use of lotteries in Athenian democracy) to challenge the widespread acceptance of majority rule. I argue that democracy is legitimate as a solution to...

Fee Shifting Under the Equal Access to Justice Act- A Qualified Success

Ensuring Equal Justice for All Demands an Increase in Assigned Counsel Rates

NYSBA Criminal Justice Journal | Summer 2000 | Vol. 8 | No. 1 15 ments. Upon a motion by the assigned counsel to be relieved, the request was granted by the court, with the obvious consent of the defendant, and another 18-B attorney assigned to the matter. To the dismay of the court and the defendant, the newly appointed attorney, upon learning at the first appearance that the case was trial re...