A key materiality of international law is the knowledge that bares that name, the types of knowledge that are produced in the name of international law, or in plainer words: international legal research. These types of knowledge are the bread and butter of international legal scholars, and their setting is primarily the academic institutions that harbour them. This type of materiality has changed significantly in the last five or so decades: the number of periodicals has grown exponentially; the Internet has made networks and research much more expansive; quantitative multiplication and qualitative proliferation have blurred, and hidden, the predominance of old establishments and centres, while creating new opportunities, and challenges too, for the peripheries.