Running through the history of jurisprudence and legal theory is a recurring concern about the connections between law and justice and about the ways law is implicated in injustice. In earlier times law and injustice were viewed as contradictory concepts. Experience, however, has taught us that injustice may be supported by law.
The essays collected here seek to remedy the uncertainty about the meaning of justice and its disembodied quality by embedding inquiry about justice in an examination of law's daily practices, its institutional arrangements, and its engagement with particular issues at particular moments in time. The essays, in drawing on the disciplines of history, law, anthropology, and political science, make the question of justice come alive as a concrete political question.
