Introduction

It may well have been Eli Lauterpacht's work as a practitioner before international and domestic courts and tribunals, which began early in his academic career, that led him to devote much energy to practical ways of making international law, and the raw materials of international law, more widely known. Among his many important legacies in the field are the establishment in 1978 of his own publishing house, the aptly named 'Grotius Publications' (later - perhaps a victim of its own success - acquired by Cambridge University Press) and the creation in 1985 of the Research Centre for ...