A General Theory of International Money

Abstract

In 1999, Professor Wiessner laid out his argument in the Harvard Human Rights Journal that customary international law protects indigenous peoples' rights to land, self-government, and cultural traditions; he chaired a global experts' review of this position, leading to the International Law Association's 2012 confirmation of those rights. John Rawls' 1993 article The Law of Peoples expands to international law his theory of "Justice as Fairness" as a well-ordered society governed by a social contract conceived under a hypothetical "veil of ignorance," forgetting decision-makers' actual position to adopt policies fair to even the least advantaged members of society-ideas compatible with the New Haven School's principles of a well-ordered society and human flourishing. Part Seven, Jack L. Goldsmith's and Eric A. Posner's 1999 article A Theory of Customary International Law, uses game theory to explain why international actors create and/or comply with customary international law-or deviate from it-based on self-interest. The final selection in this volume, Catherine A. MacKinnon's 2006 piece Are Women Human? and Other International Dialogues, presents feminism as a theory of women's status, forged to deal with sexual inequality extending through all aspects of life and social order from intimate relationships through the state, which calls for rethinking everything presumed universal from the point of view of male power.