Encyclopedia of Global Justice

Joshua Kassner is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Baltimore where he teaches courses in normative and applied ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. His research is focused on the global arena with specific interests in role normative principles (moral and legal) governing the normative framework of international relations. He has published on global justice, international political theory, and the morality of humanitarian intervention. Recently, he published a book on the moral nature and limits of state sovereignty (2021), another on the philosophy of human rights (2024), a chapter in an anthology on immigration, human rights and state sovereignty, and a chapter in an anthology on the implications republicanism has for the legitimacy of international political institutions. Currently, he is working on a book on human rights to be published later this year. He was an Associate Scholar at the University of East Anglia (UK) AY 2014-15, and he was awarded the Freeman Resident Ethics Fellowship at the US Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Professional Ethics during AY 2018-19. He is currently the Research Fellows Director for the Hoffberger Center for Ethical Engagement, a Research Fellow at the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Director of the University of Baltimore’s undergraduate program in Philosophy, Law, and Ethics. He also serves as the Managing Editor for the Encyclopedia of Social Philosophy and the Philosophy of Law (Springer), and the Editor in Chief for the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer).
Deen K. Chatterjee is Senior Advisor and Professorial Fellow in the S.J.Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City. His areas of specialization are justice and global initiative, ethics of war and peace, and philosophy of religion and culture. He is the series editor of Studies in Global Justice (Springer), with eleven volumes published in the series so far. His publications include, most recently, The Ethics of Preventive War (Cambridge University Press); Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield); Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge University Press); and Ethics and Foreign Intervention, with Don E. Scheid (Cambridge University Press). Currently he is completing two monographs, one on the ethics of war and peace and the other on cosmopolitan justice. In addition, he is editing two volumes, one with Martha Nussbaum on Tagore's philosophy of education and the other on feminism and multiculturalism. Besides contributing chapters in several anthologies and encyclopedias, he has published articles and reviews in The Monist, Metaphilosophy, Ethics and International Affairs, Ethics, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Social Philosophy Today, and The Good Society. Chatterjee has been a member of the American Philosophical Association's Advisory Committee on Applied Ethics (Eastern Division) and has been a two-term member of the Association's Committee on International Cooperation.