NASP, in cooperation with PTP - Political Theory Project, is pleased to announce
Public Lecture
Robert Goodin
(School of Philosophy, Australian National University)
Rough Justice
Chair: Antonella Besussi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
10th November 2016, 17.30
Sala Lauree
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali
Via Conservatorio, 7 - Milano
Abstract
Informal justice often is castigated as rough justice, procedurally unauthorized and substantively unrationalized and prone to error. Yet those same features are present, to some extent, in formal justice as well: they do not form the basis for any sharp categorical contrast between formal and informal justice. Furthermore, some roughness in justice may be no bad thing. Certain of those elements of roughness in formal justice are inextricably bound up with other features of formal justice that are rightly deemed morally important. And rough informal justice can be sometimes be used to change formal justice in more just directions.
