Terradas' vindicatory justice : an attempt at formalization

This article takes on Ignasi Terradas' latest book La justicia más antigua (2019) in the attempt to conceptualize "vindicatory justice" through a formalization inspired by Theodor Geiger's Vorstudien zu einer Soziologie des Rechts of its fundamental notions and principles. This study identifies (I) three key concepts constituting an essential lexicon of vindicatory justice: (I.i) offense, (I.ii) defenselessness (I.iii) composition; and (II) three basic principles underlying vindicatory justice: (II.i) principle of universal answerability (PUA) (II.ii) principle of reconciliation (PR) (II.iii) principle of ancillary vengeance (PAV). [Publisher's text].