Who Rules the World: the Educational Capital of the International Judiciary

摘要: The creation of a global structure of international courts (ICs) has been an ongoing project throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. It wasand is-part of a more general endeavor of creating an international community governed by law. While the proliferation of ICs has been described elsewhere,'we know surprisingly little about who the actual judges sitting at the helm of contemporary judicialized international law and ruling (on) the world are. What has once been termed the" invisible college of international law" 2 remains to a large extent invisible to this day. But it is now a much larger college as the proliferation of ICs has resulted in a corresponding multiplication of the number of international judges. Today, more than three hundred men and women hold the office of international judge. 3 Most are found in Europe, at the two regional courts of the Court of Justice of