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6 - The Three Wise Monkeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

Tommaso Soave
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Central European University, Budapest
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Although judicial bureaucracies are the backbone of international courts and tribunals, their presence remains largely unacknowledged in official discourse and scholarly analysis. This chapter takes collective silence as an object of interest and explores its socio-political dimensions. The role of judicial bureaucrats is an open secret. Courts, government representatives, counsel, and academics are all aware of it, and yet conspire to keep it invisible to the public. The chapter reflects on the reasons behind the conspiracy of silence. Could it be due to the confidential nature of judicial proceedings? To the need to preserve the legitimacy of judicial institutions in the eyes of their audiences? Or, perhaps, to the instinctive desire of international lawyers to maintain an aura of mystery and sanctity around their profession?

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The Everyday Makers of International Law
From Great Halls to Back Rooms
, pp. 137 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Three Wise Monkeys
  • Tommaso Soave, Central European University, Budapest
  • Book: The Everyday Makers of International Law
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009248013.007
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  • The Three Wise Monkeys
  • Tommaso Soave, Central European University, Budapest
  • Book: The Everyday Makers of International Law
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009248013.007
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  • The Three Wise Monkeys
  • Tommaso Soave, Central European University, Budapest
  • Book: The Everyday Makers of International Law
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009248013.007
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