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Law and Social Justice: Rawls’s Theory of Justice, the Distributive Justice Debate, and Standards for Evaluating Legal Systems

What kind of legal system is just? John Rawls's *A Theory of Justice* (1971) proposed the 20th century's most influential liberal justice theory: the

sunqi.org 2026-06-20

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International Law’s Foundations and Challenges: The Sovereignty Principle, Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and the ICJ’s Enforcement Dilemmas

International Law is a rule system regulating state behavior without a world government, uniquely lacking coercive enforcement mechanisms (unlike dome

sunqi.org 2026-06-13

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Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: Shareholder Rights, Director Liability, Corporate Personhood, and 21st-Century Corporate Law Challenges

The corporation is one of modern market economies' most important legal instruments: Limited Liability allows investors to only lose invested capital

sunqi.org 2026-06-06

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The Legal Dimensions of Social Inequality: Affirmative Action, Proving Structural Discrimination, and Legal Remedies

The tension between formal equality (equality before the law) and substantive equality (equality of actual outcomes) is one of modern legal systems' m

sunqi.org 2026-05-29

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Climate Change and Law: International Climate Treaty System, the Climate Litigation Wave, and Corporate Carbon Emissions Liability

Climate change is one of the 21st century's most important legal challenges: the Paris Agreement's insufficient legal binding force, domestic climate

sunqi.org 2026-05-22

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Legal Challenges in the Digital Age: Data Privacy Regulations, AI Liability, and the Institutional Dilemmas of Platform Regulation

Digital technology (internet, AI, big data) development has outpaced existing legal framework design, creating systemic legal challenges in privacy (G

sunqi.org 2026-05-15

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Economic Analysis of Law: Property Rights Theory, Incentive Structures in Contract Law, and Legal Efficiency Principles

Law and Economics (the Posnerian school) uses economic tools (efficiency analysis, cost-benefit tradeoffs, incentive structures) to analyze legal rule

sunqi.org 2026-05-07

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Criminal Justice Theory: The Philosophical Basis of Punishment, the Death Penalty Debate, and the Rise of Restorative Justice

Why does the state have the right to punish crime? Is the death penalty morally and empirically justified? Does the existing criminal justice system a

sunqi.org 2026-04-30

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The International Human Rights System: The UDHR, Human Rights Universalism, and the Cultural Relativism Debate

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR, 1948) is the international human rights system's foundational document, establishing life, dignity, e

sunqi.org 2026-04-22

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Rule of Law and Constitutionalism: Judicial Independence, Judicial Review, and Institutional Design Distinguishing Rule of Law from Autocracy

Rule of Law is one of modern politics' core principles: government power is constrained by law, with no person or institution above it. But "rule of l

sunqi.org 2026-04-15

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