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230Equal pay as a precondition of justice?In Anders Örtenblad (ed.), Debating Equal Pay for All: Economy, Practicability and Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 255-266. 2021.Equality is typically presumed to be an end of justice; however, in this chapter, we argue that it is better understood as a condition of justice. Our argument draws on the Just World Fallacy, the phenomenon of people mistakenly believing fortuitous patterns of reward or harm to be reflective of justice. This phenomenon can undermine relationships of equality even where differences in reward or harm are ostensibly deserved. If everyone received equal pay, then the propensity for people to defer …Read more
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10Accommodating Closed Material Procedures within Rawls’ Theory of JusticeRes Publica 25 (3): 319-333. 2019.Closed Material Procedures are widely considered to be unjust. In his influential A Theory of Justice, Rawls sets out that trials must be fair and open, and that such precepts of natural justice ensure the impartiality of the legal order. I argue that whilst this commits Rawls to a rejection of the permissibility of CMPs, he is not right to do so, and his theory does not require him to do so. Firstly, the conception of natural justice upon which Rawls bases his view of open justice is not so str…Read more
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