1. Philosophizing about Global Justice (January 21)
Russ Shafer Landau, The Fundamentals of Ethics, “Introduction”
Jon Mandle, Global Justice, pp. 1-14
2. Realism: “Global Justice? There’s No Such Thing…” (January 24)
Jon Mandle, Global Justice, pp. 28-35
Henry Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations
3. Utilitarianism (January 28)
4. Global Utilitarianism (January 31)
Robert Goodin, “What Is So Special About Our Fellow Countrymen?”
5. Application: Global Poverty: A Positive Duty (February 4)
Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence and Morality”
John Arthur, “World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer”
6. Global Poverty: A Negative Duty (February 7)
Thomas Pogge, “World Poverty and Human Rights”
Debra Satz, “What Do We Owe The Global Poor?”
7. Paper-writing workshop (February 11)
8. Miller’s Nationalism (February 14)
David Miller, “National Identity”
David Miller, “The Ethical Significance of Nationality”
9. Nationalism and Global Justice (February 21)
David Miller, “Reasonable Partiality Towards Compatriots”
10. Application: What's wrong with Colonialism? (February 25)
Lea Ypi, "What's Wrong With Colonialism"
11. What's wrong with Colonialism? (ctd) (February 28)
Margaret Moore, "The Taking of Territory and the Wrongs of Colonialism"
Cara Nine, "Colonialism, Territory, and Pre-existing Obligations"
12. Who exactly is responsible for Colonial Injustice? And is Western feminism imperialist? (March 4)
Catherine Lu, "Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary Redress"
Serene Khader, "Transnational Feminisms, Nonideal Theory and 'Other' Women's Power"
13. Rawls’ Theory of Justice (March 7)
Michael Sandel, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, Chapter 6
14. Globalizing Rawls (March 11)
Charles Beitz, “Justice and International Relations”
15. Assessing Global Liberal Egalitarianism (March 14)
Chris Armstrong, “National Self-determination, Global Equality and Moral Arbitrariness”
16. Film: Border South (March 25)--I'll be in LA, no need to come to class, watch on your own time!
17. Application: Immigration: For Open Borders (March 28)
Joseph Carens, “Migration and Morality: A liberal egalitarian perspective”
18. Immigration: Against Open Borders (April 1)
Michael Walzer, “The Distribution of Membership”
James Woodward, “Commentary: Liberalism and Migration”
19. Immigration: How should we respond to illegal immigration? (April 4)
Adam Hosein, "Arguments for Regularization"
Stephanie Silverman, "Detaining Immigrants and Asylum-seekers: A Normative Introduction"
20. Immigration: Resistance to unjust immigration policies (April 8)
Javier Hidalgo, "Resistance to Unjust Immigration Restrictions"
21. Nagel’s “Political Conception of Justice” (April 15)
Thomas Nagel, “The Problem of Global Justice”
22. Assessing Nagel (April 18)
Chris Armstrong, Global Distributive Justice, section 3.4
Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel, “Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justitia?”
23. Application: Fairness in Trade (April 22)
Malgorzata Kurjanska and Matthias Risse, “Fairness in Trade II: Export Subsidies and the Fair Trade Movement”, pp. 43-49 only
Helena de Bres, "Justice and International Trade"
24. Application: Climate Justice (April 25)
Henry Shue, “Global Environment and International Inequality”
Eric Posner and David Weisbach, Climate Change Justice, Chapter 5
25. Summing Up (April 29)
No readings.