Daniel Butt

Theories of distributive and rectificatory justice, with particular reference to historical injustice and international politics; colonialism; egalitarianism; the ethics of cultural property; environmental ethics; judicial politics and the philosophy of law. More details at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1010/

Undergraduate:Introduction to Politics: The Theory and Practice of Democracy; Theory of Politics; Af=dvanced Paper in Theories of Justice; History of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau

Graduate:Theory of Politics;Ethics; Mitigating Historical Injustice

BOOK

• Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations (Oxford University Press, 2009)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Nations, overlapping generations and historic injustice", American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 357-67 pdf
• "On benefiting from injustice", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007), 129-152 pdf - Reprinted in Lukas Meyer (ed.) Intergenerational Justice (Ashgate, 2012).
• “Inheriting compensatory claims and duties: reparations to the descendants of “comfort women””, Journal of Asiatic Studies, 53 (2010), 40-70 (in Korean – translation by Sun Young Lee) pdf
• (with Stuart White and Martin O’Neill) “Liberalism and trade unionism”, International Union Rights, 18 (2012)
• “Option luck, gambling, and fairness”,Ethical Perspectives 19,3 (2012), 417-443 pdf
• “Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire”,Social & Legal Studies 21,2 (2012), 227-242 pdf
• “Inheriting rights to reparation: compensatory justice and the passage of time”, Ethical Perspectives 20, 2 (2013), 245-269 pdf

• “’A doctrine quite new and altogether untenable’: defending the beneficiary pays principle”, Journal of Applied Philosophy  31,4 (2014), 336-348 pdf

• “Restitution post bellum: property, inheritance, and corrective justice”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “‘Victors’ justice’? Historic injustice and the legitimacy of international law”, in Lukas H. Meyer (ed) Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 163-185 pdf
• “Global equality of opportunity as an institutional standard of distributive justice”, in Chios Carmody, Frank J. Garcia, and John Linarelli (eds.), Global Justice and International Economic Law: Opportunities and Prospects, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 44-67 pdf
• “Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia”, in Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Melissa Nobles (eds.) Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia (Routledge, 2013) pdf
• “Colonialism and postcolonialism”, in Hugh LaFollette (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell, 2013), pp. 892-8 pdf
• "‘The Polluter Pays’: Backward-looking principles of intergenerational Justice and the environment" in Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Spheres of Global Justice, (Dortrecht: Springer, 2013) pdf
• “Reparative justice: the debate over inherited inequities”, in Rupert Jones-Parry and Andrew Robertson (eds.), The Commonwealth Yearbook 2014 (Cambridge: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014) pdf
• “Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice”, in Luis Cabrera and Tom Sorell (eds.) The Ethics of Microfinance (Cambridge University Press, 2015) pdf
• “Historical justice in post-colonial contexts: repairing historical wrongs and the end of Empire”, in Janna Thompson and Klaus Neumann (eds.) Historical Justice and Memory (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)

• “Law, governance and the ecological ethos”, in Stephen Gardiner and Allen Thompson (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016) pdf

• “Historical emissions: does ignorance matter?”, in Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha (eds.), Historical Emissions and Climate Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017) pdf

• “Distributive justice in postcolonial studies”, translation to appear in Patrick Savidan, Dictionnaire des inégalités et de la justice sociale (Presses universitaires de France, forthcoming)
  
  
  

• Book Review: Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, by Lea Ypi, in Political Theory 43 (2015), 699-703.

REPORTS AND POLICY BRIEFS

The following reports were written for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in Oxford.

• The Capacity of Courts to Handle Complexity (2009)
• Adjudicating Socio-Economic Rights (2008)
• Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights (2008)
• In Times of Crisis, Can We Trust the Courts? (2008)
• If the Public Would Be Outraged by their Rulings, Should Judges Care? (2007)
• The Courts and Social Policy in the United States (2007)
• Report: Democracy, the Courts, and the Making of Public Policy (2006)
• Policy Brief: Democracy, the Courts, and the Making of Public Policy (2006)