University of Michigan (MA) Bowdoin College Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) is an American political theorist known for his contributions to the field of global justice.

Beitz has received numerous fellowships, served as editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

[1] Beitz's work, along with that of Brian Barry, Thomas Pogge and Henry Shue, has been among the most important and influential in the literature concerning global justice.

Contributors to this journal edition include Chris Brown, David Miller, Simon Caney, Catherine Lu and Nicholas Rengger.

[7] His The Idea of Human Rights (2009) won the Estoril Global Issues Book Award in 2011[2] and was the subject of a symposium in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy in 2022.