Defining Economic and Social Justice
The Justice University concept is unique in that it integrates Aristotelian-Thomist principles of the natural law into a social and economic program that is politically feasible and embodies sound business practice. Its practicality is demonstrated by the success of the “ESOP Revolution,” which today benefits more than 11 million workers in more than 10 thousand companies in the United States alone. Dr. Norman G. Kurland, a member of the CESJ core group, who was Kelso’s Washington Counsel, was instrumental in helping persuade the late Senator Russell Long of Louisiana to champion the initial enabling legislation for the ESOP.