Daniel Butt

Book

• Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Edited book

• (with Sarah Fine and Zofia Stemplowska) Political Philosophy, Here and Now: Essays in Honour of David Miller (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Articles and book chapters

• "Contemporary rights and duties of apology for historic injustice", Reason Papers 44,2 (2024), 199-211.
• “Empire, ownership, and the Elgin Marbles: who should own the past?” IAI News (08 December 2023)
• “Settling claims for reparations”, Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity 11,7 (2022), 60-79 pdf
• (with Zofia Stemplowska) "No country for strangers", in Butt, Fine, and Stemplowska, Political Philosophy, Here and Now: Essays in Honour of David Miller (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• "Corrupting the youth: should parents feed their children meat?", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (2021).
• "Judicial independence and transformative constitutionalism: squaring the circle of legitimacy" in D. J. Galligan (ed.), The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe? (Hart, 2021) 
• "What structural injustice theory leaves out", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (2021).
• (with Matthew Butt) “The mathematics of juries”, Counsel (April 2021).
• “The ethical implications of benefiting from injustice”, in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (5th edition) (Wiley Blackwell, 2020).
• “Restitution post bellum: property, inheritance, and corrective justice”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 36,3 (2019), 357-365
• “Decolonising universities: the second wave”, Common Ground 2 (2019), 16-19.
• “Justice postcoloniale” [Postcolonial justice], in Patrick Savidan (ed.), Dictionnaire des inégalités et de la justice sociale (Presses universitaires de France, 2018) (in French).
• “Historical emissions: does ignorance matter?”, in Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha (eds.), Historical Emissions and Climate Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017) pdf
• “Law, governance and the ecological ethos”, in Stephen Gardiner and Allen Thompson (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016) pdf
• “Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice”, in Luis Cabrera and Tom Sorell (eds.) The Ethics of Microfinance (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• “Historical justice in post-colonial contexts: repairing historical wrongs and the end of Empire”, in Janna Thompson and Klaus Neumann (eds.) Historical Justice and Memory (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)
• “’A doctrine quite new and altogether untenable’: defending the beneficiary pays principle”, Journal of Applied Philosophy  31,4 (2014), 336-348 pdf
• “Reparative justice: the debate over inherited inequities”, in Rupert Jones-Parry and Andrew Robertson (eds.), The Commonwealth Yearbook 2014 (Cambridge: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014) pdf
• "‘The Polluter Pays’: Backward-looking principles of intergenerational Justice and the environment" in Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Spheres of Global Justice, (Dortrecht: Springer, 2013) pdf
• “Inheriting rights to reparation: compensatory justice and the passage of time”, Ethical Perspectives 20, 2 (2013), 245-269 pdf
• “Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia”, in Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Melissa Nobles (eds.) Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia(Routledge, 2013) pdf 
• “Colonialism and postcolonialism”, in Hugh LaFollette (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell, 2013), pp. 892-8 pdf
• “Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire”, Social & Legal Studies 21,2 (2012), 227-242 pdf
• “Option luck, gambling, and fairness”, Ethical Perspectives 19,3 (2012), 417-443 pdf
• “Global equality of opportunity as an institutional standard of distributive justice”, in Chios Carmody, Frank J. Garcia, and John Linarelli (eds.), Global Justice and International Economic Law: Opportunities and Prospects, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 44-67 pdf
• (with Stuart White and Martin O’Neill) “Liberalism and trade unionism”, International Union Rights, 18 (2012)
• “배상 요구와 의무의 상속성:‘위안부’여성들의 후손에 대한 배상” (Inheriting compensatory claims and duties: reparations to the descendants of “comfort women”), Journal of Asiatic Studies, 53 (2010), 40-70 (in Korean – translation by Sun Young Lee) pdf
• “‘Victors’ justice’? Historic injustice and the legitimacy of international law”, in Lukas H. Meyer (ed) Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 163-185 pdf
• "On benefiting from injustice", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007), 129-152 pdf 
  - Reprinted in Lukas Meyer (ed.) Intergenerational Justice (Ashgate, 2012).
• "Nations, overlapping generations and historic injustice", American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 357-67 pdf

Book review

• Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, by Lea Ypi, in Political Theory 43 (2015), 699-703.

Reports and policy briefs

The following reports were written for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in Oxford.

• The Capacity of Courts to Handle Complexity (2009)
• Adjudicating Socio-Economic Rights (2008)
• Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights (2008)
• In Times of Crisis, Can We Trust the Courts? (2008)
• If the Public Would Be Outraged by their Rulings, Should Judges Care? (2007)
• The Courts and Social Policy in the United States (2007)
• Report: Democracy, the Courts, and the Making of Public Policy (2006)
• Policy Brief: Democracy, the Courts, and the Making of Public Policy (2006)