Tag: "justice"

Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do? by Michael Sandel

Phil Badger is out for Justice.
[Issue 83: March/April 2011: Books]

Watchmen

Grant Bartley finds time to watch them.
[Issue 81: October/November 2010: Films]

Truth and the Client’s Interest

Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo tells us why truth is sometimes sacrificed to law.
[Issue 79: June/July 2010: Law, Tolerance and Society]

The Dark Knight

Todd Walters reports on justice, rebellion and random acts of violence in Gotham City.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009: Films]

V for Vendetta

Floris van den Berg watches The Open Society and its Enemies, the movie.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Films]

The Warrant Report

Tim Madigan on the philosophers who investigated the Kennedy assassination.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Food for Thought]

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha Nussbaum

Jean Chambers witnesses Martha Nussbaum raise a high bar for standards of international social justice.
[Issue 60: March/April 2007: Books]

The Injustice of Punitive Justice

We take their money, their freedom, sometimes their lives, but opinions differ over exactly what we are trying to achieve, how we should go about it and what justifies it anyway. Jane Forsey on the punishment of criminals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Crime & Punishment]

Sir Stuart Hampshire

Sir Stuart Hampshire has a new theory of justice based on the inevitability of conflict and on the importance of hearing the other side. Paul Sheehy asked him about his struggles with justice.
[Issue 28: August/September 2000: Interview]

Criminal Law and Decency

Dick Hamilton reviews two books on justice and decency.
[Issue 10: Autumn 1994: Books]