ilAn - Say I grant the idea that Judaism somehow founded the notion of a rule of law (forgetting of course, the law codes that preceded it and were contemporaries to it). A truly basic social justice philosophy of the rule of law doesn't simply work with just any set of laws. The laws themselves must be just. A great many systems of law have been unjust, but that didn't make them any less lawful, or any less systematic, and certainly no less ruling.

To say that Judaism is a foundational element of social justice, or vice-versa, based on the idea that it works from a system of the rule of law, the Jewish laws must be socially just. Proponents of this idea are tapping-in to that reality when they reinterpret verses like "justice, justice, shall you pursue."