{"id":2849,"date":"2026-08-14T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/?page_id=2849"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:22:00","slug":"three-readings-of-violent-protests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print\/volume-23-special-issue-2025\/three-readings-of-violent-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Readings of Violent Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violent protests against state injustice have gained increasing attention from political philosophers in recent years. One view which has emerged here is that many real-world states\u2019 claim to legitimate authority\u2014including liberal democratic states\u2014is undermined by the pervasive social and racial injustices that mar them, and that\u2014against this background\u2014violent protests may have an important political role to play, even in democratic societies. This paper compares three framings of that role. I argue that we can draw parallels between these three framings and the three leading justifications of legal punishment in the democratic state. This comparison exposes problems with some existing defenses of violent protests, and points to the most promising framing of violent protesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/23-S-Pasternak.pdf\">Continue reading Three Readings of Violent Protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent protests against state injustice have gained increasing attention from political philosophers in recent years. One view which has emerged here is that many real-world states\u2019 claim to legitimate authority\u2014including liberal democratic states\u2014is undermined by the pervasive social and racial injustices that mar them, and that\u2014against this background\u2014violent protests may have an important political role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":2814,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2849","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2849\/revisions\/2850"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}