Corrective Justice and Liability for Global Warming

Adler focuses on Professor Farber's suggestion that corrective justice (CJ) might justify institutions imposing liability on greenhouse gas emitters so as to compensate the victims of climate change. CJ impose a duty on the agent who has acted wrongfully, and thereby caused loss to some individual, to repair the loss. The victim's loss must be more than reduction of well-being; rather, it must be a setback to some protected interest, an aspect of well-being or of personhood that is singled out for concern as a matter of CJ.