In a recent e-mail interview, Ms. Erdrich discussed the difficulty of obtaining justice on reservations, the influence of her father on her fiction and more.
Albert Camus, also well known to Mr. Zaretsky, always kept in mind the complexity of political choices, and the utmost difficulty of seeking justice in a violent world.
Among the parallels between Nazism and Southern racism was the difficulty of bringing to justice the perpetrators of racial violence, most of whom did little to hide their identities.
Also, when the unofficial transcripts (the Indian legal system does not release official transcripts) described the decidedly odd nature of the questions related to homosexuality asked by the justices during the hearings, they revealed the difficulties of two justices delivering a fair and objective ruling in a country with the second largest population in the world.
He had no difficulty with his appointments of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman on the High Court in 1981 and Justice Antonin Scalia in 1986, though his elevation of William H. Rehnquist to chief justice that year provoked some opposition in Congress.
One of the difficulties of criminal-justice reform is that power is spread so diffusely through the system.
Calling the case puzzling and tragic, Justice Clancy discussed the difficulty of balancing the interests of justice when presented with an officer who had "no malicious criminal intent," but who had "incomprehensibly fired his gun five times".
But Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, told the Commons that while he accepted the difficulty of "reconciling the issues of justice and security" the legislation was not "proportionate to the scale of the problem".
Feminist analyses of care chains typically argue that traditional theories of justice have difficulty articulating the precise nature of the harms or injustices involved in these phenomena.
Mr. Karadzic, by insisting that he is exempt from legal proceedings, has now forced the war crimes tribunal to deal with his allegations, illustrating the difficulty of both administering international justice and conducting diplomacy.
