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Conventional global justice theory expresses a concern for the suffering of individuals around the world, yet very often the experience of those individuals plays little role in the work of theorising global justice. In this paper I argue that global justice has tended to take an architectonic approach in which the theorist orders the world by offering idealised principles of justice that serve as guides to necessary global reforms. This approach draws on a flawed geography of injustice, in which the world is divided into just and orderly regions that must save unjust and disordered regions, while also misunderstanding the causes of injustice. In place of this architectonic approach, I offer a consummatory approach that conceives of justice as a quality of social relationships and which draws on the experience of individuals suffering injustice, using the Grenfell Tower fire as an example. This consummatory approach is then further developed by outlining a situationist global justice theory drawing on the philosophy of John Dewey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transnational effects are identified as those economic effects which cross state boundaries. Where these effects are negative, as illustrated by the 'transnational case,' it is asked what the appropriate ethical analysis of such a case might be. If we leave aside a social-distributive justice analysis, for reasons given, then a typical move is to claim that transnational economic effects are analyzable as human rights violations. The paper examines this claim and identifies the specific view of human rights which motivates it; the 'outcomes view of human rights.' It is then shown how the outcomes view of human rights ultimately collapses into social-distributive justice-type standards and so suffers from the same problems raised against using those standards for transnational effects. An alternative approach to human rights is sketched, although a complete theory of human rights is not offered. Finally, a different type of justice analysis for transnational cases is offered in which a form of international justice proper is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on human rights in terms of systems of social allocation and provision. It discusses the responsibilities of states in ensuring that citizens are given with the goods, services and protection required in enjoying their rights. It outlines the basic elements of a social provision approach. It also presents the comparison between social provision approach and violations approach and offers two illustrative applications.