ABSTRACT
Franck’s answer to this question was a lament: he blamed changes in scholarly vocation and jurisprudential fashion, especially in the US, where he claimed “legal nihilism” now prevails. Yet surely there is more to it than this, as Franck himself hinted. International law is “increasingly the subject of restatements, codifications, treaties and resolutions of international organizations,” all of which means that “the treatise writer can no longer be as visible or as influential as formerly.”3 We need not impugn scholarly motives to see what has happened. Treatises have been superseded.
