Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaching global justice through human rights : elements of theory and practice / Carol C. Gould -- Global equality of opportunity as an institutional standard of distributive justice / Daniel Butt -- Human persons, human rights, and the distributive structure of global justice / Robert C. Hockett -- Global economic fairness : internal principles / Aaron James -- The conventional morality of trade / Chin Leng Lim -- The political geography of distributive justice / Jeffrey L. Dunoff -- Democratic governance, distributive justice and development / Chantal Thomas -- Global justice and trade / Fernando Tes©đn and Jonathan Klick -- Jam tomorrow : a critique of international economic law / Barbara Stark -- Doing justice : the economics and politics of international distributive justice / Joel P. Trachtman.

"Global justice is one of the most important subjects in law and political theory today. What principles of justice might tell us about the actual practices of the WTO and other international economic institutions is of vital importance to states and their citizens. This volume reflects the results of a symposium held at Tillar House, the ASIL headquarters in Washington, DC, in November 2008 which brought together philosophers, legal scholars, and economists to discuss the problems of understanding international economic law from the standpoint of rights, justice, and economic efficiency. The book makes advances in developing the normative criterion for ecaluation and justifying the international economic legal order"--Provided by publisher.