Dr. Mark Joób

mark( at )joob.org

Welcome on my website!

Let me say some words about my research in the field of global justice.

Politics is based on interests and values. Different interests often come into conflict with one another, e.g. the economic interest of a particular group in making an extra profit and the social interest in maintaining institutions that serve the common good. Hence any politics applies some standard in order to value interests, constructing a hierarchy among them. So as to meet the requirements of justice, such a standard should not only be derived from democratic processes that are founded on individual and collective autonomy but also from other intrinsic values such as physical and mental integrity which, if they are taken into consideration, to some degree determine the result of democratic decision-making. Legally, intrinsic values are represented above all by universally declared human rights. Human rights not only set a limit to national sovereignty but also imply corresponding duties that exceed national borders and hold globally.

In my research, I focus on two questions:

- Which universal rights and duties arise from the notion of justice under the condition of globalization, i.e., which standard should be applied to assess interests on the international level?

- How would a global legal order able to guarantee these rights and to enforce the corresponding duties look like; in other words: how could an appropriate hierarchy of interests be institutionalized globally?

Publications:

Globale Gerechtigkeit im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Theorien der politischen Philosophie

Christian Academic Press, Ödenburg 2008

Justice, Legitimacy and Supranational Institution-Building - open as .pdf file

In: European Journal of Law Reform (2006), Vol. VI, no. 3/4, 411-425.

Gemeinwohl als Grundlage globaler Gerechtigkeit - als .pdf Dokument öffnen

In: Bonvin, Kohler und Sitter-Liver (Hrsg.), 2004: Gemeinwohl - Bien commun / Ein kritisches Plädoyer - Une plaidoyer critique, Fribourg (CH): Academic Press, 209-229.