The world is watching a split screen: In one panel, humanity sees jurists such as Navi Pillay of South Africa, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for her decades of struggling for international law, in roles such as high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and president of the tribunal adjudicating the atrocities in Rwanda.
In the other panel, U.S. President Donald Trump continues waging his full-bore assault on international law on several fronts at once.
One attack is aimed at the International Criminal Court, the same tribunal where Pillay adjudicated war-crimes trials in the aughts. Trump is now escalating his campaign to destroy that court altogether.
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