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Attar, Mohsen (2019) Pathology or plutocracy? The misery of international law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 32 (4). 875. doi:10.1017/S0922156519000517
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156519000517
Abstract
In contrast to many other texts in international economic law (IEL), The Misery of International Law reaches beyond the regulatory capacities of the regime, targeting its constructivist character and tracing the conceptions of (in)justice that emerge. Travelling well beyond doctrine, the authors regale readers with a plethora of evidence about how IEL is experienced — frequently suffered — by the world’s masses, building a robust critique that evidences the partialities of IEL. Indeed, when coming to the end of the book, I found myself in possession of a persuasive account of the many injustices of IEL but, foremost, a sense of the deterministic quality of the outcome, the latter of which qualifies their (limited) calls for reform. In the following review, I detail some of the key lessons I take away about the pathological and plutocratic nature of IEL.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KB General and Comparative Law K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Commercial law, International law, International law -- Economic aspects, International economic relations -- Law and legislation, Investments, Foreign (International law) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Leiden Journal of International Law | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0922-1565 | ||||||
| Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 32 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 875 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0922156519000517 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been published in a revised form in Leiden Journal of International Law https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2019 | ||||||
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