It has become a familiar trope to recite that we live in an era marked by an unprecedented growth in international courts and tribunals. Besides its empiricist overtones and familiar focus on the evolution of international law, this ritualized incantation serves to signal the increased importance of international lawyers. An entire generation of international law scholars and practitioners–of which David D. Caron was a leading representative–has been shaped by this new landscape of international adjudication that has departed from familiar professional reference points. They have spent most of their careers grappling with and seeking conceptually to abstract it. After over three decades of burgeoning literature on this development, it appears timely to take stock of it from the perspective of a generation’s shared professional experience navigating the “judicialization of international law.”
Navigating the Judicialization of International Law in Troubled Waters: Some Reflections on a Generation of International Lawyers
