HJS 310. International Perspectives on Justice
Prof. Kyoo Lee, Suite 325-4, Dept. of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Office Hours: by appointment
I. INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT IN/JUSTICE TODAY
Topic 1: A Planetary Opticalization of the World: A Philosophical And Relevant Introduction
Read In Advance: William Scheuerman, Globalization: A Philosophical Overview (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Supplementary:
Kate Ascher, excerpt re Making a Fruit Salad in NYC, The Works: Anatomy of a City
Etienne Balibar, Europe: Vanishing Mediator
Jeffrey Sachs, The Future of Globalization
Amartya Sen, How to Judge Globalism
Joseph Stiglitz, Sharing the Benefits of Globalization
Paul Virilio, Excerpts, The Information Bomb
Topic 2: The Problem of Global Justice: Free, Fun and Fair?
Read In Advance: Thomas Nagel, The Problem of Global Justice
Read In Advance: Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
In-class Material: Arturo Perez Torres, Heather Haynes, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (video)
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Universal Values for a World Community, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Europe: Vanishing Mediator
Supplementary Read: Ramin Bahrani, Chop Shop (video)
Supplementary Read: David Held, Violence, Law, and Justice in a Global Age
Supplementary Read: Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
Topic 3: Who Are We? And Where Are We?
Read In Advance: Erik Camayd-Freixas, Interpreting after the Largest ICE Raid in US History (May 12, 2008, 10:00am, Postville, Iowa, USA) Read In Advance: Richard Rorty, Who Are We? Moral Universalism and Economic Triage
In-class Material: Arturo Perez Torres, Heather Haynes, Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (video)
Supplementary Read: David Abernethy, Consequences of European Overseas Rule, The Dynamics of Global Dominance
Supplementary Read: Linda Alcoff, Habits of Hostility on Seeing Race
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Idea, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Albert Anderson, Truth, Reality and the Growth of Empire, World Community Seminar Series (audio)
Supplementary Read: Bruce Anderson, Obama's problem remains that he's not American enough.
Supplementary Read: Hannah Arendt, The Perplexities of the Rights of Man, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Supplementary Read: Etienne Balibar, Outlines of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence
Supplementary Read: Joseph Carens, Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders
Supplementary Read: Antonio Caso, The Human Person and the Totalitarian State
Supplementary Read: Adam Liptak, A Citizen, But "Natural Born"? McCain's Eligibility Disputed by Professor
Supplementary Read: Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace (video)
Supplementary Read: Kelly Oliver, Seeing Race, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition
II. IN/JUSTICE AND OUT/LAWS: SPIRIT AND EMBODIEMENT
Topic 4: The Code of Hammurabi and the Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Martha Roth, Reading Mesopotamian Law Cases PBS 5 100: A Question of Filiation
Supplementary Read: U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights (03/04/1789)
Supplementary Read: Harold Medina, U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge, The Bill of Rights-Our Heritage, Vital Speeches of the Day, 2/1/58
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
10/29 Confucianism and the Spirit of Laws
Read In Advance: Zhao Dunhua, Axiological Rules and Chinese Political Philosophy
In-class Material: A Useful Thematic Summary Of Analects
Supplementary Read: Albert Chen, Is Confucianism Compatible with Liberal Constitutional Democracy?
Supplementary Read: Baogan He, Confucianism Versus Liberalism Over Minority Rights
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
11/05 Criminology as Lovemaking: An African Perspective
Read In Advance: Criminology as Lovemaking: An Africa Centered Theory of Justice
Supplementary Read: Famous Trials
III. IN/JUSTICE AND NON/VIOLENCE: WAR, CONQUEST AND RESISTANCE
11/12 Sun Tzu's Art of War And Its Contemporaneity
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book IX. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: Charles de Montesquieu, Book X. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to Offensive Force, The Spirit of Laws
Supplementary Read: John Armitage, On Ernst Jünger’s ‘Total Mobilization’: A Re-evaluation in the Era of War on Terrorism
11/19 Student Research Presentation/Writing Workshop
11/26 Student Research Presentation/Writing Workshop
12/03 Student Research Presentation/Writing Workshop
12/10 Student Research Presentation/Writing Workshop
