Abstract
According to a survey published in 2001, and things will have declined since then, lawyers formed only 16 per cent of the top 100 public intellectuals in the United States.2 Of the 16, one is dead, one is a Supreme Court Justice, one is a judge and author of the survey, two are converts to law from other disciplines, and so there only remains 11, a cricket team, of well known if not necessarily reputable legal academics. Worse, however, is to come. None of the 11 public intellectual legal scholars is an international lawyer. Let’s put this directly. Th e legal discipline that is most obviously concerned with aff airs of state, with highly visible international incidents, with the
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