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Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of ´constitutive justice´ alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice.

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William A. Barbieri Jr. is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Ethics of Citizenship: Immigration and Group Rights in Germany (Duke, 1998), co-editor of From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics (De Gruyter, 2012; with Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven), and editor of At the Limits of the Secular: Reflections on Faith and Public Life (Eerdmans, 2014).

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