The revised second edition of this text sets out the main contending theories of justice as exemplified in the works of a range of major theorists. Eight major theories of justice based on the work of Nozick, Dworkin, Rawls, Posner, Marx, Young and Habermas are each introduced in their own terms and assessed in accordance with their ability to generate clear, consistent and illuminating accounts of justice as a distinctive social, political and legal value.