Calling readers’ attention to a celebration… and a quick article published on conflictoflaws.net this morning, by my friend and colleague Mayela Celis, Senior Legal Officer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Given this organization’s impact at the end of a brutal century, it’s little wonder that Tobias Asser was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [If only his guidance had been followed, the 20th century wouldn’t have been even more brutal than the 19th!]