Introduction

It is a privilege to have been asked to contribute these few inadequate remarks in this celebration of Eli, and I thank the organisers for giving me the honour to take part. I think I said most of what I wanted to say about Eli-the-man in my tribute to him published by the EJIL:talk! blog in February 2017 , although I must reiterate that he was a wonderful and inspiring teacher and an assiduous PhD supervisor, despite some of the misgivings I am sure he had of the broadly theoretical nature of my research. I am convinced I worried him at times because he thought I was about to disappear ...