This is the first book to critically assess how "supersession thesis," developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. This book concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron.

Lukas H. Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria. He has written and edited numerous books, articles, and encyclopaedia entries on intergenerational justice, historical injustice, and climate change ethics. He is one of the two speakers of Cluster of Excellence Climate Change Graz.

Timothy Waligore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pace University in New York, USA. His publications on reparations, Indigenous peoples, Immanuel Kant, and global justice have appeared in Moral Philosophy and Politics; Politics, Philosophy & Economics; and Public Reason. He co-edited (with Buckinx and Trejo-Mathys) Domination and Global Political Justice (Routledge, 2015).

1. Superseding historical injustice? New critical assessments 2. Colonialism and rights supersession: a Kant-inspired perspective 3. Superseding structural linguistic injustice? Language revitalization and historically-sensitive dignity-based claims 4. The supersession thesis, climate change, and the rights of future people 5. Group agency and the challenges of repairing historical injustice 6. Supersession, non-ideal theory, and dominant distributive principles 7. Indigenous governance now: settler colonial injustice is not historically past 8. The supersession of Indigenous understandings of justice and morals 9. Supersession: A reply