The ICC has also been heavily criticised for promising too much and delivering too little. Modern international criminal law was born after the Second World War, when the Allied powers sat in judgment over the crimes of the Nazis in the trials at Nuremberg. Justice Robert Jackson remarked in his opening speech at the tribunal, “that four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stayed the hand of vengeance, and voluntarily submitted their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason”. The promise of...