Anthea Roberts is Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She specializes in public international law, investment treaty law and arbitration, and comparative international law. Anthea previously taught at the London School of Economics as well as Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. She is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law, ICSID Review, and the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and blogs for EJIL: Talk! She has twice won the Francis Deák Prize for the best AJIL article by a younger scholar. Anthea serves as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, and has experience serving as an arbitrator, counsel, and expert in international disputes.

an imaginative, heterodox work that challenges the very foundations of our profession.

• List of Figures List of TablesForeword by Martti KoskenniemiPreface AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations 1. The Divisible College of International LawyersI. DifferenceII. DominanceIII. Disruption 2. Project Design I. General Framework II. The Actors and Materials Studied III. The States and Universities Studied IV. Important Concepts and Factors V. Three Points of Method 3. Comparing International Law AcademicsI. The Global Flow of Students and Ideas II. Comparing Educational Profiles III. Comparing Publication PlacementsIV. Comparing Links Between Academia and Practice 4. Comparing International Law Textbooks and Casebooks I. Preliminary Points of Method II. The Nationalized/ Denationalized Divide III. Inconsistent Approaches IV. A Tendency to Look West V. A Lack of Diverse Comparativism VI. Divisions Between the Western and Non- Western BooksVII. Divisions Between Western Books 5. Patterns of Difference and Dominance I. Comparing International Legal Academies II. Identifying Scholarly Silos and Attempts to Connect III. Identifying Patterns of Dominance 6. Disruptions Leading to a Competitive World Order I. Shifting to a Competitive World Order II. Disagreements in Practice, Not Just Words Conclusion Appendix A. Academics Included in the Study Appendix B. Scholars Referred to in Select Chinese and Russian International Law Textbooks Appendix C. Tables of Content for International Law Textbooks Appendix D. Chinese Research Funding by Topic Bibliography Books and Reports Book Chapters Journal Articles and Book Reviews Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs Cases Internet Sources Speeches and Audio Statutes, Government Statements, and Decrees Other Index

Anthea Roberts is Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She specializes in public international law, investment treaty law and arbitration, and comparative international law. Anthea previously taught at the London School of Economics as well as Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. She is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law, ICSID Review, and the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and blogs for EJIL: Talk! She has twice won the Francis Deák Prize for the best AJIL article by a younger scholar. Anthea serves as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, and has experience serving as an arbitrator, counsel, and expert in international disputes.

an imaginative, heterodox work that challenges the very foundations of our profession.

• List of Figures List of TablesForeword by Martti KoskenniemiPreface AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations 1. The Divisible College of International LawyersI. DifferenceII. DominanceIII. Disruption 2. Project Design I. General Framework II. The Actors and Materials Studied III. The States and Universities Studied IV. Important Concepts and Factors V. Three Points of Method 3. Comparing International Law AcademicsI. The Global Flow of Students and Ideas II. Comparing Educational Profiles III. Comparing Publication PlacementsIV. Comparing Links Between Academia and Practice 4. Comparing International Law Textbooks and Casebooks I. Preliminary Points of Method II. The Nationalized/ Denationalized Divide III. Inconsistent Approaches IV. A Tendency to Look West V. A Lack of Diverse Comparativism VI. Divisions Between the Western and Non- Western BooksVII. Divisions Between Western Books 5. Patterns of Difference and Dominance I. Comparing International Legal Academies II. Identifying Scholarly Silos and Attempts to Connect III. Identifying Patterns of Dominance 6. Disruptions Leading to a Competitive World Order I. Shifting to a Competitive World Order II. Disagreements in Practice, Not Just Words Conclusion Appendix A. Academics Included in the Study Appendix B. Scholars Referred to in Select Chinese and Russian International Law Textbooks Appendix C. Tables of Content for International Law Textbooks Appendix D. Chinese Research Funding by Topic Bibliography Books and Reports Book Chapters Journal Articles and Book Reviews Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs Cases Internet Sources Speeches and Audio Statutes, Government Statements, and Decrees Other Index

Anthea Roberts is Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She specializes in public international law, investment treaty law and arbitration, and comparative international law. Anthea previously taught at the London School of Economics as well as Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. She is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law, ICSID Review, and the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and blogs for EJIL: Talk! She has twice won the Francis Deák Prize for the best AJIL article by a younger scholar. Anthea serves as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, and has experience serving as an arbitrator, counsel, and expert in international disputes.

an imaginative, heterodox work that challenges the very foundations of our profession.

• List of Figures List of TablesForeword by Martti KoskenniemiPreface AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations 1. The Divisible College of International LawyersI. DifferenceII. DominanceIII. Disruption 2. Project Design I. General Framework II. The Actors and Materials Studied III. The States and Universities Studied IV. Important Concepts and Factors V. Three Points of Method 3. Comparing International Law AcademicsI. The Global Flow of Students and Ideas II. Comparing Educational Profiles III. Comparing Publication PlacementsIV. Comparing Links Between Academia and Practice 4. Comparing International Law Textbooks and Casebooks I. Preliminary Points of Method II. The Nationalized/ Denationalized Divide III. Inconsistent Approaches IV. A Tendency to Look West V. A Lack of Diverse Comparativism VI. Divisions Between the Western and Non- Western BooksVII. Divisions Between Western Books 5. Patterns of Difference and Dominance I. Comparing International Legal Academies II. Identifying Scholarly Silos and Attempts to Connect III. Identifying Patterns of Dominance 6. Disruptions Leading to a Competitive World Order I. Shifting to a Competitive World Order II. Disagreements in Practice, Not Just Words Conclusion Appendix A. Academics Included in the Study Appendix B. Scholars Referred to in Select Chinese and Russian International Law Textbooks Appendix C. Tables of Content for International Law Textbooks Appendix D. Chinese Research Funding by Topic Bibliography Books and Reports Book Chapters Journal Articles and Book Reviews Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs Cases Internet Sources Speeches and Audio Statutes, Government Statements, and Decrees Other Index