Misery of International Law - Confrontations With Injustice in the Global Economy

International law is not neutral in the interests it protects and offends. This book examines how current international legal regimes constitute and sustain economic injustice, and presents a forceful case for ridding international law of its hallmarks of fostering poverty, inequality, and dispossession.

About the author

John Linarelli is Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University, co-directs the Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law at Durham, and is a member of the Centre for Law and Global Justice at Durham.

Dr. Margot Salomon is Associate Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy at LSE Human Rights.

Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah is CJ Koh Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore.

Summary

International law is not neutral in the interests it protects and offends. This book examines how current international legal regimes constitute and sustain economic injustice, and presents a forceful case for ridding international law of its hallmarks of fostering poverty, inequality, and dispossession.

Additional text

A searching critique of the 'moral disorder of international economic law' is here reinforced by the 'pathologies' of international law as whole, display versatile forms of highly 'duplicitous normative forces' at work. A more sustained philosophical and pragmatic critique of global capital is hard to come by; this work needs to be read by all to understand what alternatives look like, particularly in the advancing Anthropocene.

Product details

• Authors: John Linarelli, John (Professor in Commercial Law Linarelli, John (Professor of Commercial Law Linarelli, John Salomon Linarelli, Linarelli John, Margot Salomon, Margot E Salomon, Salomon Margot E., Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, Sornarajah Muthucumaraswamy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198753957
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875395-7
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Legal History, LAW / International, LAW / Jurisprudence, Public International Law, Legal History, Public international law: human rights, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law