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Equal Access To Justice: Three Interpretations
This Chapter analyzes three interpretations of what it is that people claim, when they claim equal access to justice for all: equal legal protection,...
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Does Political Equality Require Equal Power? A Pluralist Account
In this paper, I criticize two views on how political equality is related to equally distributed political power, and I offer a novel, pluralist...
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What does it mean to have an equal say?
Democracy is the form of government in which citizens have an equal say in political decision-making. But what does this mean precisely? Having an...
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Causal bias in measures of inequality of opportunity
In recent decades, economists have developed methods for measuring the country-wide level of inequality of opportunity. The most popular method,...
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What’s Fairness Got to Do with it? Fair Opportunity, Practice Dependence, and the Right to Freedom of Religion
The right to religious liberty as for instance set out in the European Convention of Human Rights protects acts of religious observance. Such...
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The Meaning of Equal Treatment of Present and Future Events—Time Discounting
The discussion up to this chapter has assumed that equal treatment of present and future events is desirable. This chapter considers whether equal...
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Wrongful Discrimination Without Equal, Basic Moral Status
Many theorists think that discrimination is wrongful because it involves treating discriminatees as if they have a lower moral status than others...
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The Instrumentalities of Equal Access to Justice: Defending Democratic Cooperation
The point of this Chapter is to carve out political principles that could ground the duty to, at times and provisionally, pause, cool down and...
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Equal Opportunity and Just Deserts: Better Late than Before
At first, equality of opportunity seems to require a process of “leveling the playing field.” I argue in this chapter that the Just Deserts proposal,...
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Fairness as Equal Concession: Critical Remarks on Fair AI
Although existing work draws attention to a range of obstacles in realizing fair AI, the field lacks an account that emphasizes how these worries...
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The inviolateness of life and equal protection: a defense of the dead-donor rule
There are increasing calls to reject the dead-donor rule and permit organ donation euthanasia in organ transplantation. I argue that the fundamental...
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Shared Inequity: An Alternative Frame for Racial Justice in Employment
Racial injustice in employment demands the attention of business organizations because it profoundly shapes our life prospects. While comparing the...
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Shifting the discourse of plagiarism and ethics: a cultural opportunity in higher education
Plagiarism is a pervasive challenge throughout academia perpetuated by the advent of technology, lack of ethical education, and the ambiguity in its...
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Equal Opportunity, Responsibility, and Personal Identity
According to the ‘starting-gate’ interpretation of equality of opportunity, individuals who enjoy equal starts can legitimately become unequal to the...
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The Opportunity Cost of Compulsory Research Participation: Why Psychology Departments Should Abolish Involuntary Participant Pools
Psychology departments often require undergraduates to participate in faculty and graduate research as part of their course or face a penalty....
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Rethinking Anonymous Grading
It has become increasingly common to endorse and implement anonymous grading as a way of promoting fairness or equality of opportunity in the...
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Influence Match: Can Corporate Lobbying Equalise Political Influence?
Some corporations use their disproportionate lobbying power to obstruct policy. This obstructive lobbying violates most people’s claims to equal...
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Aristotle and Rawls on Economic (In)equalities and Ideal Justice
The problem of economic justice is the division and distribution of income and wealth. Is a just distribution an equal distribution, or are some...