This book controversially addresses key topics in the area of international justice, including human rights, democracy, secession, international criminal tribunals, armed intervention, political assassination, global economic inequality, and immigration.

Andrew Altman is Professor of Philosophy and Director, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University. He is the author of Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique and Arguing About Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy. Professor Altman has published widely on topics in legal and political philosophy. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University, and he is a former Liberal Arts Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School. Along with Professor Wellman, he has co-directed two summer seminars for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and Professorial Fellow at CAPPE, Charles Sturt University. He is the author of A Theory of Secession and (with John Simmons) Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Democracy and Self-Determination


• 3: Secession


• 4: International Criminal Law


• 5: Armed Intervention and Political Assassination


• 6: International Distributive Justice


• 7: Immigration


• 8: Conclusion


• References