Goodin, Robert2015-12-100032-3179http://hdl.handle.net/1885/70045One of the most exciting innovations within 'practical democratic theory' in recent years has been the emergence of deliberative democracy, as a theoretically refined ideal with by now some well-honed mechanisms for its implementation on a small scale. Its greatest remaining challenge is to figure out some way to connect those highly controlled, small-scale deliberative exercises to the 'main game', politically. I sketch some limited and indirect ways in which that might happen in national politics, before going on to propose a more novel way in which such deliberative events might be used literally to make international law of a certain sort.Keywords: Citizens' juries; Deliberative democracy; Jus cogens201210.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02356.x2016-02-24