John Rawls was an important moral and political philosopher. This book explores the legacy of his work. It makes contribution not only to work on Rawls' thought but to contemporary debates in ethics and justice as well.

Introduction, Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle, UK) and Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Cambridge, UK); 1. The unity of Rawls's work, Leif Wenar (University of Sheffield, UK); 2. Self-realization and the priority of fair equality of opportunity, Robert S. Taylor (University of California, Davis, USA); 3. Taking the distinction between persons seriously, Anthony Simon Laden (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); 4. Rawls and feminism: What should feminists make of liberal neutrality?, Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary, Canada); 5. Public reason and the moral foundation of liberalism, Jon Mahoney (Kansas State University, USA); 6. Dilemmas of public reason: pluralism, polarization, and instability, Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University, USA); 7. Public reason and religion, James Boettcher (Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, USA); 8. John Rawls and the new Kantian moral theory, Ana Marta Gonzalez (University of Navarra, Spain); 9. The Law of Peoples: the old and the new, Chris Naticchia (California State University, USA); 10. The legacies of John Rawls, Fred D'Agostino (University of New England in New South Wales, Australia).

John Rawls was unquestionably the most important moral and political philosopher of the last one hundred years. His A Theory of Justice published in 1971 is already a classic text, and his political philosophy is more widely studied than that of any other theorist.

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