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Martha Nussbaum

Develops capabilities, emotions, dignity, justice, feminism, education, animal ethics, and liberal human development.

“The central question is what people are actually able to do and to be.”
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1959–present

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Shows how law and politics can miss people whose lives sit at overlapping forms of exclusion.

African American Thought · Feminist Thought · Law
1881–1951

Pixley ka Isaka Seme

Frames African modernity as regeneration, dignity, law, and collective self-assertion.

African Thought · Anti-Colonial Thought · Law
1947–present

Martha Nussbaum

Develops capabilities, emotions, dignity, justice, feminism, education, animal ethics, and liberal human development.

Ethics · Feminist Thought · Law
1891–1956

B. R. Ambedkar

Analyzes caste, democracy, law, Buddhism, equality, social reform, constitutionalism, and annihilation of inherited hierarchy.

Anti-Caste Thought · Indian Thought · Law
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