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Justice as a Fair Start in Life, which explores what is the called the ""constitutive fallacy"" - basing one's obligation to follow the law on top-down instruments like written constitutions rather than bottom-up family reforms that actually empower people in a measurable way, and enable them to physically constitute - under the Children's Convention - legitimate societies. ""The Legal Theory Bookworm (Prof. Larry Solum at the University of Virginia School of Law) recommends Justice as a Fair Start in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children"" by Carter Dillard. The chapters ""show a comprehensive command of the relevant literature . . . well‐grounded in theory, they provide a linear, coherent presentation of their argument, and the argument itself is, in varying degrees, original and creative."" Blind expert peer-review. And beyond the book, people are mobilizing at the Fair Start Movement to evade the fallacy and actually constitute just societies. Regarding that work, and a letter to the Dean of Yale Law School urging support for Fair Start reforms, Professor Philip Noel Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, referred to the letter as ""home truths."" Regarding the fallacy, Sarah Conly, Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Bowdoin, called it ""completely correct."" ""[Dillard's] proposals are bound to provoke controversy. They include family-planning policies designed to drive constructive climate migration and reduce the number of children per household in wealthier countries. But there's much to like in his ideal of equal respect for future persons, his fundamental concern for power relations across generations, and the connection that he urges between the size of successive cohorts and the access they will have to basic public goods."" Professor Dov Fox, University of San Diego, School of Law. Professor Fox was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in political theory and served as a lecturer in politics and philosophy. He received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to attend Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal and all three years awarded the prize for best paper in law and science. ""It is this sweeping breadth of understanding that makes the book special, this joining of dots between child, parent and planet, like a journey from Foucault's bio-power to Bradiotti's zoe-power."" Amrita Nandy - Amrita research scholar and activist based in New Delhi. Amrita was the Fox International Fellow (2013-2014) from the New Delhi-based Jawaharlal Nehru University. Amrita has a Master's in Women s Studies from the University of Oxford, U.K. ""Dillard's Justice as a Fair Start in Life offers a radical rethink of power relations in our modern world, where procreation is, or ought to be, a carefully deliberated and responsible choice, reflecting its extensive normative and practical consequences for children, would-be parents, and for the very possibility of just and sustainable societies."" Kuhlemann, Karin, PhD candidate at University College London. And a leading ethicist on the right to have children: ""The planet is burning, the right to procreate is not absolute, and nature is a habitat not a resource. Carter Dillard, author of Justice as a Fair Start in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children, wants to make you uncomfortable.This is an important book. It does not provide an easy read but then, maybe a little discomfort is good."" David N. Cassuto (Professor of Law & Faculty Director of Graduate Programs, Pace University, Visiting Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, William College)

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