Justice in Globalised World

DHARMASHASTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY,
JABALPUR (M.P.)
LLM
Year – 2022 Semester – II
Course Title – Law and Justice in a Globalized world
Objective –
Globalisation has brought gradient changes in the law and society. It has changed the ways
law is perceived and added new challenges for theorising ‘justice’. Law and Justice, in a
globalized world, have a different setting. Issues that the constitutions of the States deal with
have spilt to international boundaries and entered the international law society. Concerns of
international law and their agencies transcended the domestic spheres too. Statist notions of
‘law’ may sometimes be juxtaposed to the internationalist notions of ‘law’. These situations
raise several pertinent questions about how we construct ‘law’ and justice’ in these changing
times. Hence, a study of these concepts is a crucial part of a study of International Law at the
post-graduate level. Therefore, the objectives of this course are as under:
 To make students understand about the inter-section of law, justice and globalization.
 To discuss about the principles of law and justice in contemporary scenario.
 To discuss about the impact of globalization.
Module I
Concept of Law
1. Philosophy of Law
2. The need and problems in defining law
3. Various schools of Law
4. Whether right is right by nature or only by enactment and convention?
5. An exhortation addressed by Demosthenes to an Athenian jury (men ought to
obey the law for four fundamental reasons)
Module II
Concept of Justice
1. Justice and arguments about justice
2. Concept of justice and conception of justice
3. Kinds of Justice
 Compensatory, distributive, socio-economic
 Procedural and Substantive
4. Theories of Justice
 Gandhian philosophy on Social Justice
 Ambedkarite social transformation
 Rawlsian and Nozickian Model of Justice
 Ronald Dworkin’s justice and personal ethics
 Mill’s utilitarian theory of justice
 Amartya Sen’s – The Idea of Justice
5. Justice according to law and Law according to Justice
Module III
Globalisation: Background and ramifications
1. Nature, meaning and significance of globalization
2. Definitional issues of Globalization
3. Qualifications in defining globalization
4. Primary issues, normative debates and policy responses to globalization
5. Growth of Transnational Law
Module IV
Concept of Global Law and justice
1. What is global law?
2. Concept of global justice
3. Theories and Perspectives of global justice
 Critical legal studies
 Post-modernist jurisprudence
 Feminist jurisprudence
4. Challenges to global justice
 Global poverty (Thomas Pogge and Joseph Raz)
 Armed conflict and Crimes against humanity
 Environmental catastrophe & sustainable development and health
 Oppressive policies
5. International Human Rights and domestic sphere of states
Module V
Global Justice and International law
1. The colonial origins of International law
2. The orient and the Occident
3. Third World Approaches to International Law
4. Fourth World Approaches to International law
5. Marxist Approaches to International law
Suggested Readings
Books:
 Alan Buchanan, (2004). Justice, legitimacy, and self-determination: Moral

foundations for international law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 10 & 11.
 Amartya Sen, (2009). The idea of justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ch.
18.
 Antony Anghie, (2007). Imperialism, sovereignty and the making of international law.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 1, 5 & 6.
 B.R Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (1936).
 Balakrishanan Rajagopal (2003). International law from below: Development, social
movements and third world resistance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch.
5 & 7.
 John Rawls, (1971). A Theory for justice. Harvard University Press. Ch.1, 2,4
 M. Sandel (2011), Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, Penguin Publisher.
 M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, 47-48 (1999).
 N. Fraser, (2010). Scales of justice: Reimagining political space in a globalizing
world. New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 2 & 6.
 Ruth Anna Putnam, Why not a Feminist Theory of Justice, in Women, Culture and
Development: A Study of Human Capabilities, Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan
Glover (eds.)
 Thomas Pogge, (2002). World poverty and human rights: Cosmopolitan
responsibilities and reforms. Cambridge: Polity. Ch. 4 & 7.
 Upendra Baxi, (2002). The future of human rights. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press. Ch.1 & 7
Articles:
 Andrew Kuper, ‘Rawlsian Global Justice: Beyond the Law of Peoples to a

Cosmopolitan Law of Persons’, Political Theory, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Oct. 2018),
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/192292.pdf>.
 B. S. Chimni (2004). International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the
Making. European Journal of International Law,15(1), 1-37.
 B. S. Chimni (2007). A Just World under Law: A View from South. American
University International Law Review., 22 (2), 199-220.
 B.S. Santos (2006). Globalizations. Theory, Culture & Society, 23, 393-399.
 D. M. Kenendy (2003). Two globalizations of law and legal thought: 1850-1968.
Suffolk University Law Review, 36(3), 631-679.
 D. M. Kenendy (2006). Three globalizations of law and legal thought: 1850-2000. In
Trubek, D. M. The new law and economic development. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 19-73.
 Developments (2016). The double life of international law: Indigenous peoples and
extractive industries. Harvard Law Review, 119, 1755-1778.
 Gillian Brock, ‘Global Justice’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring
2017 Edition Edward N. Zalta),(Oct. 2018)
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/justice-global/>.
 R. Posner, “The Economic Approach to the Law, 757, 53 Texas Law Review (1975).
 Richard Posner, The Economics of Justice, 168 (1985).
 S. Adam (2011). Distributing Justice. New York University Law Review, 86 (2), 500-
572.
 SudarshanIyengar, Gandhi’s Jurisconscience: Evolution of his ideas on Justice at
http://dakshindia.org/Daksh_Justice_in_India/17_chapter_07.xhtml
 Terence C. Halliday and Pavel Osinsky, ‘GLOBALIZATION OF LAW’, Annual
Review of Sociology, (2006) Vol. 32, 447-70, (25 Dec 2018)
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/29737747.pdf>.
 UpendraBaxi, ‘Access to Justice in a Globalized Economy: Some Reflections’, ILI
Golden Jubilee ,(2006)
 William Twining, Have concepts, will travel: analytical jurisprudence in a global
context, International Journal of Law, 1,1 pp. 5–40 (2005)

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DHARMASHASTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY,

Year – 2022 Semester – II

Course Title – Law and Justice in a Globalized world

 Alan Buchanan, (2004). Justice, legitimacy, and self-determination: Moral

 Andrew Kuper, ‘Rawlsian Global Justice: Beyond the Law of Peoples to a

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