On Justice

This unifying proposal for understanding distributive justice discourse across cultures sheds light on how best to understand political philosophy.

Mathias Risse is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research primarily addresses questions of global justice ranging from human rights, inequality, taxation, trade, and immigration to climate change and the future of technology. He has also worked on issues in ethics, decision theory, and 19th century German philosophy. Risse is the author of On Global Justice (2012), Global Political Philosophy (2012), and On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal (with Gabriel Wollner, 2019).