Justice

===Institutions and justice===
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In a world where people are interconnected but they disagree, institutions are required to instantiate ideals of justice. These institutions may be justified by their approximate instantiation of justice, or they may be deeply unjust when compared with ideal standards&nbsp;– consider the institution of [[slavery]]. Justice is an ideal the world fails to live up to, sometimes due to deliberate opposition to justice despite understanding, which could be disastrous. The question of institutive justice raises issues of [[Legitimacy (political science)|legitimacy]], [[Legal procedure|procedure]], [[Codification (law)|codification]] and [[statutory interpretation|interpretation]], which are considered by legal theorists and by [[Philosophy of law|philosophers of law]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title =Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |author=David Miller |chapter=Justice |chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ |date=26 June 2017|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University }}</ref> The United Nations [[Sustainable Development Goal 16]] emphasizes the need for strong institutions in order to uphold justice.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Doss|first=Eric|title=Sustainable Development Goal 16|url=https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/sdg-16/|access-date=2020-09-25|website=United Nations and the Rule of Law|language=en-US}}</ref>