Daniel Butt
MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxon
Research
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/
Research interests
Political Theory, International ethics and global Justice, Norms, legitimacy and justification, Rights, Justice, and Equality, International law
Teaching
Undergraduate: Introduction to Politics: The Theory and Practice of Democracy; Theory of Politics; Advanced Paper in Theories of Justice
Graduate: Theory of Politics; Ethics; Mitigating Historical Injustice

Publications
BOOK
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Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations (Oxford University Press, 2009)
EDITED BOOK
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(with Sarah Fine and Zofia Stemplowska) Political Philosophy, Here and Now: Essays in Honour of David Miller (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
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"Corrupting the youth: should parents feed their children meat?", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, forthcoming.
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"Judicial independence and transformative constitutionalism: squaring the circle of legitimacy" in D. J. Galligan (ed.), The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe? (Hart, forthcoming)
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(with Zofia Stemplowska) "No country for strangers", in Butt, Fine, and Stemplowska, Political Philosophy, Here and Now: Essays in Honour of David Miller (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
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"What structural injustice theory leaves out", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (2021).
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(with Matthew Butt) “The mathematics of juries”, Counsel (April 2021).
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“The ethical implications of benefiting from injustice”, in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (5th edition) (Wiley Blackwell, 2020).
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“Restitution post bellum: property, inheritance, and corrective justice”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 36,3 (2019), 357-365
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“Decolonising universities: the second wave”, Common Ground 2 (2019), 16-19.
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“Justice postcoloniale” [Postcolonial justice], in Patrick Savidan (ed.), Dictionnaire des inégalités et de la justice sociale (Presses universitaires de France, 2018) (in French).
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“Historical emissions: does ignorance matter?”, in Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha (eds.), Historical Emissions and Climate Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017) pdf
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“Law, governance and the ecological ethos”, in Stephen Gardiner and Allen Thompson (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016) pdf
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“Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice”, in Luis Cabrera and Tom Sorell (eds.) The Ethics of Microfinance (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
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“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)
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“’A doctrine quite new and altogether untenable’: defending the beneficiary pays principle”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 31,4 (2014), 336-348 pdf
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“Reparative justice: the debate over inherited inequities”, in Rupert Jones-Parry and Andrew Robertson (eds.), The Commonwealth Yearbook 2014 (Cambridge: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014) pdf
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"‘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
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“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
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“Colonialism and postcolonialism”, in Hugh LaFollette (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell, 2013), pp. 892-8 pdf
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“Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire”, Social & Legal Studies 21,2 (2012), 227-242 pdf
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“Option luck, gambling, and fairness”, Ethical Perspectives 19,3 (2012), 417-443 pdf
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(with Stuart White and Martin O’Neill) “Liberalism and trade unionism”, International Union Rights, 18 (2012)
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“배상 요구와 의무의 상속성:‘위안부’여성들의 후손에 대한 배상” (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
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"On benefiting from injustice", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007), 129-152 pdf
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- Reprinted in Lukas Meyer (ed.) Intergenerational Justice (Ashgate, 2012).
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"Nations, overlapping generations and historic injustice", American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 357-67 pdf
BOOK REVIEW
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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.
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