The papers in this volume together raise and respond to this key question: how can the justice of global economic relations be enhanced and safeguarded by international economic law? First, there is a need for more careful, formal attention to the relationship between normative theory and social...

<p>Trade is a species of exchange rooted in a rich experience of encounter, opportunity, risk, and inequalities of power. All of this enters into the relationship between trade, defined here—following Berge—as the free circulation of goods, and questions of meaning and value (our subject...</p>

Developing country concern over awed special and differential treatment (Samp;D) provisions has already contributed to the failed Seattle and Cancun WTO Ministerial Meetings. In order to succeed, the current WTO Doha Development Round must go beyond simply reforming existing Samp;D provisions,...

<p>International trade and economic globalization are in crisis. In the U.S. and elsewhere, current regimes like NAFTA and the EU, and trade deals like the TTIP and the TPP, have become targets for the political backlash against trade and its larger context, economic globalization. Brexit and the...</p>

By transforming borders and de-territorializing behavior, globalization raises a host of questions and concerns fundamental to law. Many commentators argue that international law and national law are no longer adequate categories for the totality of “law” today, and offer an array of new...

This essay identifies six key legal, economic and governance convergences in 21st century global law and policy: the deepening of the global economy, the worsening of economic inequality, the thickening of global social relationships, the unification of international economic law, the emergence...

Together with the WTO, the Bretton Woods Institutions are the preeminent international institutions devoted to managing international economic relations. This mandate puts them squarely in the center of the debate concerning development, inequality and global justice. This essay explores how...

In this paper, we examine the essential and increasingly recognized relationship between theories of justice and international economic law. As international economic law institutions have increased in number and power, and the stark figures of global poverty prove stubbornly persistent, justice...