The environmental justice literature faces a number of conceptual and methodological shortcomings. The purpose of this paper is to probe ways in which these shortcomings can be remedied via recent developments in related literatures: population health and air pollution epidemiology. More sophisticated treatment of social structure, particularly if based on Pierre Bourdieu's relational approach ...

justice rule is among the legal rules that have less dealt with. application of this rule is based on achievement of justice as an attribute for legal rulings. some jurists have no regarded human beings to be capable of comprehending the legal rulings as just and have subjected it to the legislator’s view. thus, using this rule in inference of legal issues and extending it to jurisprudence has ...

There are several reasonable conceptions of liberalism. A liberal polity can survive a measure of disagreement over just what constitutes liberalism. In part, this is because of the way a liberal order makes possible a dynamic, heterogeneous civil society and how that, in turn, can supply participants with reasons to support a liberal political order. Despite the different conceptions of justic...

Is it possible, after a conflict or genocide, to deliver justice and build a new political order acceptable to all sides previously set on destroying each other? Christian Nadeau looks at recent conflicts in Rwanda and in the former Yugoslavia, among others, to lay down the foundations of a theory of transitional justice. In his view a successful transition to democracy has to be based on repar...

social norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members based on the process of social control, the level of political legitimacy and procedural justice practices in the areas of governance, social order is guaranteed. in this study, the independent variables associated with three domains of social control, procedural justice and social capital to norm comp...

c onsidering the normative nature of the theories of justice, a distinguished theory of justice could be formulated based on the fundamental teachings of islam. hence a new set of indexes are required to put this new concept to test. through detailed study of the islamic teachings, the research seeks to formulate a comprehensive theory on economic justice (based on various economic rights). in...