Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
In this Response to Professor Peters, Professor Greenawalt argues that prescriptive equality does have meaningful normative force. Prescriptive equality plays a reinforcing role when it agrees with nonegalitarian justice and is not incoherent when it pulls against nonegalitarian justice. Specifically, when one individual has been treated better than is required by nonegalitarian justice, a similarly situated and significantly related individual who is aware of that treatment may merit equivalent treatment because of widespread and deep-seated feelings about equality.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Jurisprudence | Law
Recommended Citation
Kent Greenawalt,
"Prescriptive Equality": Two Steps Forward,
110
Harv. L. Rev.
1265
(1997).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2919