Resources and the property rights curse

Abstract

Legal theory is often thought to be subordinate to, or at best only parallel with, certain kinds of conceptual work in political philosophy. In recent years, emerging philosophical work has pursued the converse proposition, namely: The notion that legal concepts can guide at least some important and difficult questions of justice, particularly where theoretical divides have led to stalemate.1 Such theoretical deadlock is arguably most profound in the context of global justice, where classic principles of political philosophy cannot always be effectively applied. Perhaps the best-developed and most promising proposal of this kind in recent years is the one that Leif Wenar has offered for anal..