Introduction PART ONE: THE RISE OF THE JUDGEMENT MODEL IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY A Reasonable View of the Reasonable Democracy, Justice and Discourse An (Almost) Aesthetic Model of Normative Validity From Fictive Dialogue to Situated Judgement The Judgement View of Higher Lawmaking PART TWO: COMPLETING THE TURN: THE PROSPECT FOR THE JUDGEMENT MODEL Traces of Modern Universilism in Contemporary Liberalism The Judgement View of Justice Impartiality without Principles and the Ideal of Equal Respect