Books and book chapters
Garner, Robert. A Theory of Justice for Animals: Animal Rights in a Nonideal World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Chapters 1–3. Link
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Peter Laslett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Chapters V–IX.
Mill, John Stuart. “On Liberty.” In On Liberty and Other Essays, 5–128. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Revised ed. Cambridge, MA.: Belknap Press, 1999. Chapter 1 (§1–4), Chapter 2 (§11–17), Chapter 3, Chapter 4 (§32–35; §39–40).
Articles and book chapters
Anderson, Elizabeth. “What Is the Point of Equality?” Ethics 109 (1999): 287–337.
Miller, David, “Justice”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Miller, David. “Two Ways to Think About Justice.” Politics, Philosophy and Economics 1, no. 1 (2005): 5–28.
Nagel, Thomas. “The Problem of Global Justice.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, no. 2 (2005): 113–47.
Okin, Susan Moller. “Justice and Gender.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 16 (1987): 42–72.
Pateman, Carole. “Women and Consent.” Political Theory 8, no. 2 (1980): 149–68.
Pogge, Thomas. “Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor.” Leiden Journal of International Law 18, no. 04 (2005): 717–45.
Sen, Amartya. “What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?” The Journal of Philosophy 103, no. 5 (2006): 215–38.
Singer, Peter. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1, no. 3 (1972): 229–43.
Recommended readings
Campbell, Tom. “Humanity before Justice.” British Journal of Political Science 4, no. 1 (1974): 1–16.
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. Zoopolis?: A Political Theory of Animal Rights. Zoopolis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012.
Miller, David. “Against Global Egalitarianism.” Journal of Ethics 9, no. 1–2 (2005): 55–79.
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State and Utopia. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
Okin, Susan Moller. “‘Forty Acres and a Mule’ for Women: Rawls and Feminism.” Politics Philosophy Economics 4 (2005): 233–48.
Rawls, John. Political Liberalism. Expanded edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Rawls, John. The Law of Peoples. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.” In The Social Contract and Discourses, 31–126. Oxford World’s Classics. London and Melbourne: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1973.
Thucydides. “The Melian Dialogue”, in The Complete Writings of Thucydides: The Pelopponesian War. New York: Random House, 1951.
Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Sheila Rowbotham. London: Verso, 2010.