Doing Justice to Difference: Moving Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Justice Barbara Hudson’s Legacy

Abstract

Professor Barbara Hudson’s visits to Brazil, especially as a visiting Professor on the
Masters Programme in Law and Social Inequality at the State University of Northern Paraná
(UENP), alongside the enduring friendships she forged, greatly infused her thinking on
inequality and Cosmopolitan Justice in societies of strangers and in a time of fear. Her ability
to clarify the labyrinthine of complex theories, arguments and methods of criminology-sociolegal
enquiry are certainly evident throughout her work. Here, my contribution has evolved
from the ethos of this journal, and from what Barbara often expressed as being the main themes
underpinning her values and academic scholarship, which she asserted should be put into a
proper context.