http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/271b884c1085325c https://verfassungsblog.de/all-the-worlds-a-stage/ “All the World’s a Stage” - The Scripts of International Law Werner, Wouter eng 2026-09-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 International Law international legal theory Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 When I started thinking about my response, I was tempted to do justice to the richness of the arguments.  However, I resisted this temptation for a very practical reason. In a short post like this one, my argument would become a bit like the law in Hakimi’s metaphor: a bramble bush reaching out in all directions without a clear authorial voice to keep the story together.  A nice metaphor for the life of law, but a bad model for a blog post. Therefore, I decided to do something that Hakimi hopefully pardons: I made a sovereigntist move, singled out one core point from her article and wove my arguments around it.