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How Compliance Understates Effectiveness

simultaneously endows some of these professionals, and especially legal academics, with architectural responsibilities in the construction of the outside universe. The foregoing should suffice to make clear that, for certain professionals of international law, there could not be a more comfortable position. Those professionals define the vocabularies and ideas that are projected in the universe while being simultaneously portrayed, from an external perspective, as being the sole wielders of spiritual authority about what is going on in this universe. Their position is that of immense authority, all of it veiled and concealed by the idea of effectivity. It does not seem controversial to hold that it is in definition and description that lies the greatest power. By virtue of the smokescreen provided by the idea of effectivity, certain professionals of international law, and especially legal academics, exert such a definitional power in all secrecy and without much formal accountability but that which is market-related or reputational. Against that backdrop, there seems no doubt that the idea of effectivity will continue to prosper and inform scholarly debates and representations of the world for the next decades. Indeed, as was argued here, effectivity alleviates the fear of certain categories of professionals, and especially legal academics, of being relegated to the periphery as well as their fear of theology. It provides them with a powerful drug against epistemological claustrophobia. Most importantly, it empowers these professionals with definitional power while allowing them to be perceived as being in the back seat. If those professionals relish power (as I believe they do), they would be foolish to forsake the idea of effectivity.