The UN General Assembly and Security Council elect the court’s 15 judges to nine-year terms. Its president is Joan Donoghue, a former legal adviser to the State Department. Judges Israel’s Aharon Barak, centre right, and South Africa’s Dikgang Ernest Moseneke, centre left, preside over the opening of the hearings at the International Court of Justice. AP A 1948 convention, ratified after the Holocaust, made genocide a crime under international law and gave the ICJ the authority to determine whether states have committed it. The court’s rulings are legally binding, but enforcement can be tricky, and the rulings can be ignored....