Capabilities, rights, emotionality and deliberation: keys to a 21st Century Theory of Justice

The enunciation of a Theory of Justice has been a task approached during the last centuries from clearly diverse perspectives. From the defence of deliberative democracy to the theory of human capabilities, there has been an attempt to find a path towards just Law. The discrepancies between these positions have been used by the defenders of relativism to reaffirm the non-existence of objective criteria of justice. In this paper we will defend human rights as the meeting point of the most relevant theories of justice and the cornerstone of just law.