The Future of International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice, in The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (William A. Schabas et al. eds., 2013)

A teenager, Pavel Friedmann, penned these poignant words while captive in the Terezin ghetto near Prague. Friedmann later perished in a Nazi concentration camp, along with 15,000 other Jewish children from Terezin. He knew he was being grievously wronged: his poetry makes that clear. But never would Friedmann have expected that his tormentors would come to face legal sanction. Moral condemnation, certainly, but courts of morality are for the afterlife. They are not courts of law for the worldly.