This book assesses the current role of Social Justice in Law scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'Leading Works' of the discipline.

Faith Gordon is Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Daniel Newman is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff, Wales.

Foreword

- Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE PC

Introduction: Law and Social Justice

- Faith Gordon and Daniel Newman

1. Lifetimes of Commitment to Law and Social Justice

- Jacqueline A. Kinghan

2. Decolonial Violence and the "Native Intellectual"

- Patricia Tuitt

3. A very British domination contract? Charles W. Mills' theoretical framework and understanding social justice in Britain

- Zara Bain

4. Marx and anti-colonialism

- Thalia Anthony

5. The Law of Peoples

- John Rawls

6. Naming 'Femicide'

- Ashley Rogers

7. Feminist Legal Engagements towards a Transformative Justice

- Jane Krishnadas

8. Social Justice and the Limits of Regulation: the enduring insights of Marx's Capital

- Steve Tombs

9. Mariana Valverde: Scale, Jurisdiction and Social Justice

- Jess Mant

10. Policing the Union's Black: The Racial Politics of Law and Order in Contemporary Britain

- Lambros Fatsis

11. Larissa Behrendt - Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future

- Robyn Oxley

12. Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously

- Lynne Copson

13. The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois

- Bharat Malkani

14. At war with the court's 'sublime complacency': Bob Woffinden remembered

- Jon Robins

15. The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition (Martha Fineman)

- Ellen Gordon-Bouvier

16. Reflections on Law and Social Justice: Robin West, 'Economic Man and Literary Woman' Mercer Law Review

- Amir Paz-Fuchs

Afterword: Intersections of Social Justice and Socio-legal Scholarship

- Professor Hilary Sommerlad, Chair in Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds