Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, What is a Fair International Society? International Law Between Development and Recognition, Oxford and Portland, Hart Publishing, 2013, pp. 238.

There review makes three interrelated point. The first one concerns the author’s choice to eschew interdisciplinary dialogue with global justice scholarship. This resolution is not only counterintuitive for a book that brings into question the concept of a “société international juste”, it also may have had negative analytical repercussions, especially where the author tries to figure out how a more equitable society forged by the establishment of the “new" New International Economic Order might look like. The second remark concentrates on the author’s perfunctory treatment of international economic law. This gap risks making the accusation of overlooking international legal practice and indulging in abstract theorizing that Tourme-Jouannet levels against global justice scholars backfire on her, at least to a certain extent. Thirdly, and lastly, it briefly discusses the philosophical presuppositions and the resulting nature of the author’s intellectual project – insofar as it is reflected in the book under review – by drawing a comparison between it and the deconstructivist/transformative posture of critical legal scholarship.