Expanding on a brief sketch of over twenty years ago, Rawls has recently offered a more detailed extension of his theory of justice to the international domain. Like the first sketch, the “law of peoples” he now proposes has no egalitarian distributive component. In my own extension of Rawl’s framework, I had argued that a criterion of global justice must be sensitive to international social and economic inequalities. Here, I take another look at this issue in light of Rawl’s new and more elaborate deliberations about it.
