Review Essays

International Law and Global Justice: On Recent Inquiries into the Dark Side of Economic Globalization, Review of Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, What is a Fair International Society?; Chios Carmody, Frank J. Garcia and John Linarelli (eds), Global Justice and International Economic Law; Iris Marion Young, Responsibility for Justice; Thomas Pogge, Politics as Usual. What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric

von Bernstorff, Jochen

Abstract

Global economic justice as a topic of moral philosophy and international law is back on the intellectual agenda and figures prominently in feuilletons, blogs and academic publications. A wave of recent studies by both international lawyers and moral philosophers on the dark side of economic globalization and the role of international law in this context is as such a remarkable phenomenon. The essay engages with diverging scholarly perspectives on global justice and international law as represented in the four volumes under review. Three substantive questions structure the non-comprehensive sketch of the global justice debate: (i) Is the current international economic order unjust? (ii) Can existing international legal rules and institutions be transformed or developed into a more just economic order? (iii) What is the potential role of international lawyers in this context?

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