Cardozo Law Review
Disciplines
Law
Abstract
Response to the panel-discussion Walter Benjamin: Justice, Right and the Critique of Violence at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in New York City (Oct. 1990).
The title alone of this symposium troubles me (in contrast to last year's title proffering the possibility of justice in the title, Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice). It implies a somewhat reductive attitude toward both violence and any possibility of justice. So, given the range of the papers to which I am responding, I have decided that a simple "critique" of several "critiques" on the Critique of Violence is, quite literally, avoiding the issue of our words. I want, therefore, to offer something close to a phenomenology-an experience of what these various papers suggest within the context of the symposium's title. To do this, I need to define the terms of the title, and in doing so I find, with great irony, that I have to delete the phrase possibility of from my point of entry. The irony is that the possibility of justice becomes precisely my point, even though I also distinguish certain conflicting definitions of violence and justice.
Keywords
Research, Violence, Crimes Against the Person, War
Recommended Citation
Jacqueline V. Brogan,
Ethical Interpretations and/or Legalistic Definitions of “Justice”,
13
Cardozo L. Rev.
1195
(1991).
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol13/iss4/9