Exploiting Justice in a Transformative Swedish Society

Abstract

Introduction to a special issue on justice and how the concept might be exploited, with the meaning to take advantage of the concept, or, to use it for one’s own benefit. The specific context for this reflection is the Nordic, historically connected to a conceptual tradition of equality as a reference rather than justice. The Nordic feminist perspectives in legal scholarship have traditionally been successful in advocating and effectuating a feminist perspective of justice both within law and in society. However, thus far, Nordic feminist perspectives of law have at least partially been limited to questions of equality between men and women, as well as in relation to justice confined to the boundaries of the nation state. The articles in this special issue transgress these limitations in various ways. Legal scholarship is also expanded as the exploiting of justice includes other disciplines. Together this multi-disciplinary special issue targets some of today's urgent challenges in a context of increasing inequalities and, at the same time, call for hope and new possibilities to form a just society.