The Misery Of International Law: Confrontations With Injustice In The Global Economy

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity.
• Examines the role of international law in constituting and sustaining injustice in the international economic order
• Offers a synthesis of approaches to exploring the pathologies across the international legal regimes of trade, investment, and finance combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies
• Explores ways in which international human rights law works against its own aims in reproducing the underlying terms of socio-economic immiseration
• Brings together three international law scholars to present a forceful case for ridding international law of its hallmarks of fostering poverty, inequality, and dispossession