Acknowledgements
The ability to make judgements that are grounded in solid information, and employ careful analysis should be one of the most important goals for any educational endeavour. As students develop this capacity, they can begin to grapple with the most important and difficult step: to learn to place such judgements in an ethical framework. Therein lies the formation of the kind of social consciousness that our world so desperately needs.
His Highness The Aga Khan
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This book is a collection of legal, philosophical and historical papers selected for presentation at a Doctoral Conference on October 9, 2015, which was hosted by the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) joint doctoral programme between the Universities of Fribourg and Bern. It addresses a vast array of topics within the meaning and scope of fairness and equity across generations and tackles – from different disciplinary perspectives – questions as to what is fair and/or just within and among generations in order to obtain a better understanding of theoretical and empirical reflections on ‘intergenerational equity’.
We are grateful to the CRUS and thank the following panellists, speakers and Conference participants for their comments and remarks on papers included in this collection:
Wolfgang Alschner (University of Ottawa)
Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg)
Elisabeth Bürgi (University of Bern)
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (University of Cambridge)
Joëlle DeSepibus (University of Bern)
Christine Jojarth (Stanford University)
Dannie Jost (World Trade Institute)
Frédéric-Paul Piguet (Institut Biosphère)
Ralph Wilde (University College London)
The editors would like to thank 10-year-old Jona David, whose compelling speech, delivered during the second half of the Conference, is reproduced in the Epilogue.
Finally, we jointly express our gratitude to Marie Sheldon, Johanna Lee and Judy Pereira of Brill Publishers. They prepared the publication most carefully.