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Global Policy public discussion
Injustices in the contemporary world include global inequities as well as disparities within nations. Understanding the demands of justice in each context requires public reasoning, and the challenges of global justice specifically call for global public reasoning. The Idea of Justice| also investigates the contributions of human rights movements to the removal of some of the nastiest cases of injustice in the world in which we live.
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard and an honorary fellow of LSE. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His books include Development as Freedom (OUP), The Argumentative Indian (Allen Lane/Penguin) and Identity and Violence (Allen Lane/Penguin), and have been translated into more than thirty languages. His latest book is The Idea of Justice|.
David Held is professor of political science at LSE and co-director of LSE Global Governance.
Global Policy| is an innovative and interdisciplinary journal bringing together world class academics and leading practitioners to analyse both public and private solutions to global problems and issues.
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8 July 2010 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Sheikh Zayed Theatre |
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London School of Economics & Political Science |
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Free |
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This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket per person can be requested from 10.00am on Thursday 1 July. Members of the public, LSE staff and alumni can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on this weblisting from 10.00am on Thursday 1 July. LSE students are able to collect one ticket from the LSESU reception, located on the ground floor of the East Building from 10.00am on Thursday 1 July. |
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