The course of the discussion on justice and Law in this volume follows the well-known course of "Encounters": Bible, ancient Greece, Christian tradition, modern thought, contemporary questions.

Is it indeed the Old Testament and Judaism in general that are concerned with justice, while the New Testament and Christianity are concerned with love, or do both Testaments and religious traditions coexist - with intensity - with both justice and love?

In ancient Greece, how is the philosophical discourse on justice related to the way the issue is raised in literature and in the field of institutions?

How is the question addressed during the Christian period, when Christianity becomes the state religion, and what changes in the understanding of justice and Law when God withdraws from the forefront? Is natural law a concept definitively outdated, useless, and unnecessary? And again the elusive question: what is the relationship between love and justice? Is there a possibility of justice without Law? Is there legal justice without social justice? What is the purely political significance of justice and its relationship to democracy?