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*** The training activities carried out in the course are a key event of the Jean Monnet Chair EDIT - Ethics for inclusive digital Europe, co-funded by the EU in the framework of the Jean Monnet Actions in the field of higher education***

The course aims at analysing the interconnection between globalization and
matters of justice and discussing its practical implications. It will address questions like: should the demands of justice apply only at the domestic level or even beyond the boundaries of the nation state? In a world as interconnected as our own, are existing inequalities morally justifiable or are they morally troubling? What is the role of Europe and EU values in fostering global justice and shaping international relations?.
In order to answer these and other questions, the course will integrate theoretical reflection and case studies. Students are expected to gain knowledge of the major approaches to social and global justice and to apply them to concrete cases.

The course will be divided into three modules.
The first module will focus on the analysis of social justice and will discuss its major
approaches, namely: utilitarianism, communitarianism, libertarianism and liberal
egalitarianism.
The second module will discuss the possibility of an extension of matters of justice from the national to the global level. The most prominent approaches, such as statism and cosmopolitanism will be compared so as to show the importance of a shift from social to global justice, given the global dimension of contemporary socio-economic and political processes.
The third module will focus on "Digital transformation and global justice" and will discuss the role of digital technologies to foster global justice and shape international relations. Here specific attention will be paid to the importance of EU values for digital technologies and to the role of the EU as a global actor in the field of ethics and digital technologies, showing its importance to foster justice, inclusion and democracy at the global level.

For interested students: The topics of the third module will be further analyzed in the "Global justice and technology lab" held by Dr. Simona Tiribelli: in the lab students will have the opportunity to do applied work on case studies that regard phenomena of injustice and discrimination prompted by digital technologies at a global level in a wide range of domains that call for global justice (e.e.: racial justice, gender justice, health justice, etc.).The training activities carried out in the Lab are also a key event of the Jean Monnet Chair EDIT - Ethics for inclusive digital Europe, co-funded by the EU in the framework of the Jean Monnet Actions in the field of higher education

• 1.  (A) C. Armstrong Global Distributive Justice Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012 » Pagine/Capitoli: Chapter 1 (pp. 10-39); Chapter 2 (pp. 40-69); Chapter 4 (pp. 106-135); Chapter 6 (pp. 162-187); Chapter 8 (pp. 220-251)
• 2.  (A) T. Brooks (ed.) The Global Justice Reader Blackwell, Oxford, 2008 » Pagine/Capitoli: Part IV: Chapter 11, Chapter 12; Part V: Chapter 14; Part VI: Chapter 18; Part VII: Chapter 21; Part XI: Chapter 37, Chapter 38

Students attending classes are required to study the teaching material provided by the instructor (updated on a dedicated on line repository), including papers by the most prominent scholars in the filed and slides.
Students not attending classes are required to study the books indicated above (selected part, where specified).

• During the first class meeting students will receive a syllabus with the detailed course program, including topics and readings of each class meeting.
  Class meetings will be structured in ways that encourage students' active participation and the development of their critical and argumentative capability. They will include lectures and discussion, team works, case studies and ethical dilemmas.
  

• Oral: aimed at evaluating both knowledge and critical capability.
  Alternatively, for interested students: individual research and paper elaboration.

The course will be taught in English

The exam will be in English