I may be biased, as theory is currently my main area of practice (here and here), but I am deeply convinced that (international) lawyers should engage more with theory. One of the peculiar features of the official discourse of international law is to look down at theory. I once heard a colleague say that…

Professor Andrea Bianchi is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies  ‘If you do know that ‘here is the Court’, we’ll grant you all the rest’ (Liberally adapted from the incipit of L. Wittgenstein’s,…