Cosmopolitanism in Context

Roland Pierik is Associate Professor in Political and Legal Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he researches political and legal philosophy and public policy. Wouter G. Werner is Professor of Public International Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, where his main fields of interest are international legal theory, the interplay between international law and international politics and conflict and security law.

'On a whole, the contributions presented here on the subject of migration reveal how important further research on this subject is. Migration issues will become even more important in the future and these studies can form an essential starting point for dealing with them on an academic basis.' Europa Ethica

• 1. Cosmopolitanism in context: an introduction Roland Pierik and Wouter Werner; Part I. Global Justice and Environmental Protection: 2. Human rights and global climate change Simon Caney; 3. Global environmental law and global institutions: a system lacking 'good process' Ellen Hey; Part II. International Economic Law and Global Justice: 4. The WTO/GATS Mode 4, international labour migration regimes and global justice Tomer Broude; 5. Incentives for pharmaceutical research: must they exclude the poor from advanced medicines? Thomas Pogge; Part III. International Conflict and Security Law and Global Justice: 6. Cosmopolitan legitimacy and UN collective security Nicholas Tsagourias; 7. Enforcing global justice: the problem of intervention Kok-Chor Tan; Part IV. International Criminal Law and Global Justice: 8. Rawls's Law of the Peoples and the International Criminal Court Steven Roach; 9. An ideal becoming real? The International Criminal Court and the limits of the cosmopolitan vision of justice Victor Peskin; Part V. Human Rights, Migration and Global Justice: 10. Is immigration a human right? Jorge Valades; 11. A distributive approach to migration law. Or: the convergence of Communitarianism, Libertarianism and the status quo Thomas Spijkerboer; 12. Can cosmopolitanism survive institutionalisation? Roland Pierik and Wouter Werner.