The Everyday Makers of International Law

'Recommended.' D. P. Forsythe, Choice 'Written not as a monograph but almost in the style of a set of internal reflections-as-narratives, this book provides a seeming fly-in-the-wall contextual account to the many considerations that suffuse international judicial decisions and deliberations. To me, it was a significant reminder of what I had already seen from my own experiences of international practice at courts and tribunals - that such institutions remain very conscious of their judicial functions, while remaining quite unconscious of the complex humanity that drives all the seen and unseen players, hierarchies, and interactions within these august institutions that strive to provide international justice.' Diane Desierto, EJIL:Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law) 'As Soave correctly points out, international courts are still shrouded in secrecy, which prevents outsiders from fully understanding how they operate. Soave makes the most significant contribution so far to lifting this veil, and his book provides material that will be tremendously useful not only to sociolegal scholars with an interest in international law, but also to practitioners who wish to understand how the courts before which they plead cases actually function.' Florian Grisel, Law and Social Inquiry 'Tommaso Soave's The Everyday Makers of International Law open[s] the black box of international institutional law and apply sociological as well as anthropological methods to study the people, spaces, and processes that create international law.' Silvia Steininger and Helga Molbæk-Steensig, EJIL:Talk!