Although I admit that the present thread has been comparatively light on deriding or derision of lawyers, regardless, this SLF/att'y wants to observe that legal acumen on Capetown Convention matters is not widespread in the profession. After all, it's pretty dry stuff.
I know one such attorney though, and he's been quite difficult to reach through his office coordinates, unusually so.
It's not part of the usual accumulation of agenda items and working papers and so on (as far as I've seen) but I still wonder how many side conversations among and with the "aviation diplomatic corps" will take place in the corridors during this fall's ICAO Assembly. "Whither the over-riding holy grail of 'standardization'?", I might ask perhaps a former ICAO SecGen.... I mean if I had representation and att'y-client privy with any entity in the "aviation diplomatic corps."