After seven years, this is our last ‘In This Issue’. We are signing off with a bumper issue full of reviews in different shapes and sizes.
Two review essays offer in-depth engagement with foundational questions. Fuad Zarbiyev reflects on Alain Pellet’s 2018 Hague Academy General Course, now published in book form. Pellet’s vision of the ‘elusive theory of reality’ (l’introuvable théorie de la réalité) in international law leaves Zarbiyev puzzled at times, as its biases and limitations seem so striking. But he ends on a ‘sentimental’ note, recognizing his secret desire that Alain Pellet, as the ‘Père Fouettard’ of international law with a long record of ‘dispensing beatings to “naughty” colleagues … would come back and restore some order in the discipline’.
