Rawls și dreptul internațional: o examinare critică
Rawls on international law: a critical examination

Summary/Abstract: Maybe John Rawls’s most controversial work, Law of Peoples attempts to extend his framework for liberal justice from the domestic to the international level. While using the same theoretical devices from his famous work in justice as fairness, the original position and the veil of ignorance, Rawls is no longer preoccupied in this stage with the rights of the individual, but with the way well-ordered peoples, liberal or otherwise, can interact and cooperate in a peaceful manner. The first part of the paper will go through the particular way in which Rawls broadens his liberal notion of justice for the international stage, while in the last part is dedicated to examining some of the objections that have been brought forth by his critics, focusing on Thomas Pogge and Allen Buchanan. The paper ends by concluding that the social ontology assumed by Rawls is not enough to properly assess the basic structure of justice at the international level.

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