international justice

While it contains laudable provisions, it is silent on certain fundamental issues, and some clauses set out the lowest common denominator.

At times the baton was dropped; at other times, drafters successfully overcame the hurdles in the process, as with the ICC Statute.

It tells other governments that they may not obtain retroactive impunity for their crimes by withdrawing from the ICC treaty.

The answer is to fully enact international criminal law at the national level and to provide for its maximum reach.

It is a matter of historical curiosity, and it's time for the UN to reunite genocide with its genus by concluding a parallel treaty.

A successful treaty will prompt States to adopt stronger national laws and cooperate with each other to stop atrocities.

Crimes against humanity is the only international crime not governed by its own treaty. It's time to formally recognize such heinous conduct.

Such a convention could dispel the notion that only genocide deserves international sanction and attention.

Recognition of a government involves calculations of both law and politics. What factors will influence States' response to the Taliban?

It now becomes a permanent part of the brazen refusal by Bosnia's Serb authorities to own up to the atrocities committed in their name.

It is time for the U.N. Human Rights Council to establish an independent international investigation into human rights atrocities in Afghanistan.

An American Society of International Law task force recommends ways to improve the Court, but some of the advice seems to undermine the goal.