Implication of Global Justice Theories for the Concept of Law

The discourse of global justice at transnational levels has given rise to important challenges . The impact of this theory on nationally discussed concepts forms an important part of such theoretical challenges. Law, which has been so far understood as a state-made concept, is now in need of a new theoretical pattern due to its relationship with theory of global justice. Accordingly, the main question of this research is whether global justice theory can change our conception of law at both national and global levels. To answer this question, upon a brief explanation of the issue of global justice and providing a short picture of law, we will examine the impact of integrated and non-integrated approaches to global justice on this brief picture. While non-integrated perspectives do not seem to be sufficient, integrated perspectives seem unrealizable in the current power structure of the world. Accordingly, given diverse human identities and relationships, relational and non-relational grounds of justice, and insufficiency of international morality, we may only come up with a moderate outlook on global justice; under which, law is bound to be defined somewhere between two poles of certainty and responsiveness. The limited but inevitable competence of states in the contemporary world and the balanced spectrum of integrated approach to justice are, respectively, embodiments of the two mentioned poles.