Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing

Tracy Isaacs is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research (which she also chairs) at the University of Western Ontario. She is co-editor, with Samantha Brennan and Michael Milde, of New Canadian Perspectives in Ethics and Value Theory, and has published articles in a number of philosophical journals including Ethics, Criminal Justice Ethics and The American Philosophical Quarterly. She has a forthcoming monograph titled Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts. Richard Vernon is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. His publications include The Career of Toleration (winner of the C. B. Macpherson Prize in 1998), Political Morality: A Theory of Liberal Democracy (2001), Friends, Citizens, Strangers: Essays on Where We Belong (2005) and Cosmopolitan Regard: Political Membership and Global Justice (2010). His current work-in-progress includes a monograph on historical redress.