On his monthly column, ASIL president José E. Alvarez recently wrote about the “Democratization of the Invisible College“. The concept of an Invisible College of International Lawyers was first coined by Oscar Schachter (the late Professor of Columbia University Law School) who saw it as “the active professional community of professors, students, government officials and international civil servants”. According to Alvarez, Schachter’s “invisible college was simply a group of professionals capable of reaching international consensus precisely because, although each member was, as an individual, deeply enmeshed in the interests of his or her nation state, as a group they shared…