Distributed for UCL Press
Structural Injustice and the Law
Structural Injustice and the Law presents theoretical approaches and case studies demonstrating how the concept of structural injustice can aid legal analysis, and how legal reform can reduce, or even eliminate, some forms of structural injustice. The interdisciplinary topics discussed here in the book include domination, equality, human rights law, legal status, labor law, criminal justice, domestic homicide reviews, homelessness, regulatory public bodies, and the films of Ken Loach. Drawn together, these subjects build an invaluable resource for legal theorists exploring how to use the concept of structural injustice and political philosophers looking for nuanced accounts of the law’s role both in creating and mitigating structural injustice.
332 pages | 1 table | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2024
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies, Law and Society
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
1 On dominated dominators
Lea Ypi
2 ’Cruel Optimism’: the limits of legal liability as a tool for engaging with structural injustice
Colm Ó Cinnéide
3 Structural injustice and the law: a philosophical framework
George Letsas
4 The law’s contribution to deliberate structural injustice: the case of the global garment industry
Maeve McKeown
5 Segmented labour markets, structural injustice, and legal remedies
Hugh Collins
6 Freedom of association and structural injustice
Alan Bogg
7 Criminal justice and social (in)justice
Nicola Lacey
8 Interrogating responsibility, agency and (in)justice in domestic abuse suicides
Vanessa E. Munro
9 Structural injustice and human rights: the case of begging
Virginia Mantouvalou
10 Structural injustice, homelessness and the law
Beth Watts-Cobbe and Lynne McMordie
11 Structural injustice and the regulatory public body landscape Jude Browne
12 Free or unfree? Depicting structural injustice in courtrooms and in film
Guy Mundlak
Index