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Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet. What is a Fair International Society? Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013. Pp. 252. £30.00. ISBN: 9781849464307 Chios Carmody, Frank J. Garcia and John Linarelli (eds). Global Justice and International Economic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 320. $35.99. ISBN: 9781107438514 Iris Marion Young. Responsibility for Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 224. $36.95. ISBN: 9780195392388 Thomas Pogge. Politics as Usual. What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric. Polity Press, 2010. Pp. 224. �22.80. ISBN: 9780745638935 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?