Widely maintained mythologies hold that “justice” refers to conclusive punishment for criminal wrongdoing (as in “an eye for an eye”). These narratives, centered on deviant acts rather than the systems in which actions unfold, delimit the possibility of justice within longstanding and embedded structures that have excluded certain individuals from the onset. If justice is understood as a process rather than an outcome, part of its work is to scrutinize the systems within which exclusive and excluding laws have been written and sustained.

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Sarah Keenan

School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London

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Photo by Yuula Benivolski
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Rutger Ceballos

Graduate Student, Political Science

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Chandan Reddy

Associate Professor, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

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Grace Reinke

Graduate Student, Political Science

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Christopher J. Schell

Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

View a recording of the online roundtable that took place on October 22, 2020, with Sarah Keenan, Chandan Reddy, and Christopher Schell.