International Law as a Profession

Introduction Jean d'Aspremont, Tarcisio Gazzini, André Nollkaemper and Wouter Werner; Part I. Thinking of International Law as a Professional Practice: 1. The professionalisation of international law Jean d'Aspremont; 2. Between commitment and cynicism: outline for a theory of international law as practice Martti Koskenniemi; 3. International law as a professional practice: crafting the autonomy of international law Richard Collins and Alexandra Bohm; 4. Scientific reason and the discipline of international law Anne Orford; Part II. The Practice of International Law and its Theories: 5. International legal scholarship under challenge Anne Peters; 6. The responsibility of the international legal academic: situating the grammarian within the 'invisible college' Gleider Hernández; 7. What is critique?: towards a sociology of disciplinary heterodoxy in contemporary international law Akbar Rasulov; 8. The relationship between theory and practice in international law: affirmation versus reflexive distance Jochen von Bernstorff; 9. The choice of the subject in writing histories of international law John Haskell; 10. International legal theory qua practice of international law Samantha Besson; Part III. The Practice of International Law and its Professional Capacities: 11. Moving beyond interdisciplinary turf wars: towards an understanding of international law as practice Tanja Aalberts and Ingo Venzke; 12. Professionals of international justice: from the shadow of state diplomacy to the pull of the market for commercial arbitration Sara Dezalay and Yves Dezalay; 13. The international law bar: essence before existence? James Crawford; 14. Consigliere or conscience: the role of the government legal adviser Matthew Windsor; 15. International law as expert knowledge: exploring the changing role of international lawyers in national contexts René Uruena; 16. Teachers of international law Pierre d'Argent; Concluding remarks: the praxis of international law Wouter Werner.