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I work on various uh related issues
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having to do with our individual
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obligations of justice uh in particular
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in non ideal conditions in unjust
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conditions. So uh examples of issues
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that I've written about include our
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obligations to um redirect a portion of
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our income to people who are victims of
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injustice. uh obligations to take
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considerations of justice into account
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when we're making decisions like uh what
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career we're going to go into or um how
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we're going to operate our businesses,
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uh things like this.
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One sort of key theme of my research is
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that our obligations uh in particular in
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non- ideal conditions are quite a bit
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more extensive than most people tend to
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think. So I think for example that we
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can be obligated to take considerations
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of justice into account when we're
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deciding for example what career we're
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going to pursue. So that uh it's not
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necessarily morally permissible to
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choose whatever career would most
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benefit you or you know the one that's
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your most preferred of the available
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options. unjust conditions in particular
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can make it the case that uh if one is
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overall a beneficiary of injustice that
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they can have obligations to um make
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choices that are not for example legally
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required within the system. Um but that
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um would better advance the aims of
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justice if they were to choose one way
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rather than another. And this applies I
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think across a broad range of domains.
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So for example, how we spend our money
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uh again what careers we pursue, how we
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operate our businesses um and um and
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other areas as well.
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The applications uh in most cases are a
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little bit indirect, right? So what I
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suggest is that um people in their
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private lives, in their roles within
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companies uh and elsewhere uh are
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obligated to take considerations of
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justice into account in deciding uh what
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they're going to do with their resources
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with you know the uh you know the
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business that they're running. if they
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have sort of multiple options in terms
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of um you know what kinds of practices
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to adopt or what areas to sort of enter
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into or things like this. Um but uh my
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research is abstract enough that um
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there are no kind of direct takeaways.
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So I don't say things like you know um
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actual person X is obligated to do this
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particular thing, right? I sort of try
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to argue that certain kinds of
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considerations are relevant and have to
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be taken into account by people who are
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making decisions um that many people
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think are um not the kinds of things
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that individuals are obligated to um
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consider when making decisions like what
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career to pursue or uh or something
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along these lines.
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One thing that I've been thinking about
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is um the conditions in which uh
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private group actions within the
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economic sphere that are aimed at
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promoting justice are permissible or
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impermissible. So consumer boycott is
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sort of one example of this. Um so if we
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think that we can pursue some important
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justice related aim through uh
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organizing some kind of collective
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boycott effort um what conditions do we
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have to meet in order uh for that sort
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of effort to be permissible in a say
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liberal democratic society. Um I'm also
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working on several papers um about
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issues related to climate change. So,
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um, one issue that I've been thinking
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about is, uh, whether historical
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emissions make a difference, uh, with
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regard to what we're obligated to do
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now, who's obligated to do what to, um,
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for example, mitigate the negative
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effects of climate change in the future.
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Um, and I'm also hoping to think about
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uh think more about the the obligations
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of businesses to contribute to the
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effort to mitigate climate change.
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