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Global Justice and International Economic Law Opportunities and Prospects (PDF)

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Synopsis

Since the beginnings of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Bretton
Woods institutions, and on to the creation of the World Trade Organization,
states have continued to develop institutions and legal infrastructure to promote
global interdependence. International economic law, a field dominated by legal
regimes to liberalize international trade but that also includes international financial
law and international law relating to economic development, has become
a dense web of treaty commitments at the multilateral, regional, and bilateral
levels. International lawyers are experts in understanding how these institutions
operate in practice, but they tend to uncritically accept comparative advantage as
the principal normative criterion to justify these institutions. In contrast, moral
and political philosophers have developed accounts of global justice, but these
accounts have had relatively little influence on international legal scholarship
and on institutional design. What is needed is a multidisciplinary approach to
understanding the economic fairness problems that societies face as they become
increasingly interdependent, and the solutions that international economic law
and institutions might facilitate. This volume reflects the results of a symposium
held at Tillar House, the American Society of International Law headquarters in
Washington, DC, in November 2008. This symposium brought together philosophers,
legal scholars, and economists to discuss the problems of understanding
international economic law from the standpoints of rights and justice, in particular
from the standpoint of distributive justice.

Book details

Author:
Edited by Chi Carmody, Frank J. Garcia, John Linarelli
ISBN:
9781107013285
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-06-11
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2012
Copyright by:
Cambridge University Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics