The theme of the 2018 ASIL Annual Meeting was “International Law in Practice,” and nowhere does international law become more practical than in the attempt to rebuild and/or stabilize fragile and post-conflict states through the means of law. Over the last two decades, the rule of law has become a veritable panacea for the international community. As the World Justice Project claimed in 2014, “[w]here the rule of law is weak, medicines fail to reach health facilities, criminal violence goes unchecked, laws are applied unequally across societies, and foreign investments are held back.” The rule of law is no longer just a political ideal of checking power, it is also increasingly “a transnational industry worth multiple billions of dollars.” Multiple state donors, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations are involved in the business of building the rule of law.