Thank you to Kostia Gorobets and Andrea Carcano for convening this symposium, first in Groningen and now here, and to all the contributors, who so thoughtfully responded to

my piece. Engaging with this group has been enormously rewarding for me. And though I cannot do justice in this reply to all the excellent points they raise, I want [...]

It is not easy to respond to this article. The argument is very rich, moving from Hobbes to formalism, realism, constructivism, critical studies and the new-New-Haven school.

It is theoretically informed, but at the end of the day down-to-earth. Instead of approaching law with a set of a-priories, Hakimi argues, it is necessary to do justice [...]

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author

of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). [...]

[Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez is an Adjunct Professor at the Pompeu Fabra Law Faculty, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Law Research and Policy. He is the author

of Governing the International Criminal Court: the History and Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (Brill, 2025). [...]