The study of international law is thriving in many institutions of higher learning, although the discipline faces challenges, especially as international law has encountered renewed contests in practice. Certain of those challenges have emerged recently, but others are reflective of longstanding skepticism through which some in the legal academy and in the public sphere have viewed the field. While many international law scholars and practitioners arduously carry out their research and advocacy, fewer have scrutinized the institutional practices and constructs surrounding the discipline’s generation of knowledge and ideas. We lack a thorough investigation of how international law scholarship is produced, published, read, and implemented into practice. What we have to date are partial glimpses and loosely formed perceptions about how concepts flow from the academic page to the policy brief, treaty, or courtroom.

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