International economic laws (IEL) have a crucial impact on the lives of ordinary individuals but are framed, negotiated, adopted, interpreted, enforced, and analyzed without reference to them. A significant reason is that IEL is capital-centered with its primary objective being to facilitate and sustain the global accumulation of capital. This goal is justified by the suggestion that the welfare of ordinary peoples’ is an attendant development. The reality is that often when workers are laid off or their real wages erode or an individual or group is unable to access life-saving drugs or vaccines or a local community is devastated such outcomes are the doings of IEL. While wrong domestic economic policies and priorities play a part in producing such results, IEL has had an important contribution to make, in the most recent decades through promoting neo-liberal policies. But the consequences of IEL are not seriously told or debated in the pages of long law review articles. In this backdrop the chapter proceeds to make case for a peoples centered IEL in the following way. First, the epistemic and material reasons for ordinary peoples being treated as mere objects of IEL are discussed. Second, the disassociation of IEL from the real subjects, i.e., ordinary citizens are illustrated. Third, certain contemporary developments that seek to address the negative consequences of IEL are examined. It is contended that these are inadequate in promoting a peoples’ oriented IEL. Finally, some theoretical and practical suggestions are offered to work toward a peoples’ friendly IEL. The broad goal is to initiate a debate on the need for and the ways in which a peoples centered IEL can be furthered.