Global Justice and International Economic Law

Chios Carmody is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, where he has taught since 1999. He also serves as Canadian Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center and an Emile Noel Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for Regional and International Economic Law and Justice, NYU Law School. Frank J. Garcia is a Professor of Law at the Boston College Law School. A Fulbright Scholar, he has lectured widely on globalization and international economic law in Europe, South America and Asia. He has served on the Executive Boards of the International Economic Law and International Legal Theory Interest Groups of the American Society of International Law and on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law. John Linarelli is an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law. Linarelli was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East Anglia Norwich Law School, Lecturer in Law at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, and Visiting Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center. He is on the Executive Board of the International Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the economic fairness problems that societies face as they become increasingly interdependent.

Part I. Theorizing Justice in International Economic Institutions: 1. Approaching global justice through human rights: elements of theory and practice Carol C. Gould; 2. Global equality of opportunity as an institutional standard of distributive justice Daniel Butt; 3. Human persons, human rights, and the distributive structure of global justice Robert C. Hockett; 4. Global economic fairness: internal principles Aaron James; Part II. How Justice Gets Done in International Economic Institutions: 5. The conventional morality of trade Chin Leng Lim; 6. The political geography of distributive justice Jeffrey L. Dunoff; 7. Democratic governance, distributive justice and development Chantal Thomas; Part III. Skepticism about the Role of Justice in International Economic Institutions: 8. Global justice and trade Fernando Tesón and Jonathan Klick; 9. Jam tomorrow: a critique of international economic law Barbara Stark; 10. Doing justice: the economics and politics of international distributive justice Joel P. Trachtman.