The Misery Of International Law: Confrontations With Injustice In The Global Economy

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• ISBN 10: 0191068713
• ISBN 13: 9780191068713
• Author: John Linarelli, Margot E Salomon, Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law.

Table of contents:

1. 1. The Legal Rendering of Immiseration
2. 2. Confronting the Pathologies of International Law: From Neoliberalism to Justice
3. 3. The End of Empire and the Search for Justice: NIEO and Beyond
4. 4. International Trade: From War Capitalism to Contracts of Distribution
5. 5. Foreign Investment: Property, Contract, and Protecting Private Power
6. 6. Global Finance: Riches for the Few; Harm for the Many
7. 7. Human Rights: Between the Radical and the Subverted
8. 8. In Lieu of a Conclusion

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