courts, commissions of inquiries, prosecutions, and trial verdicts at the heart of the
justice agenda, obscures the troubling aspects and outcomes, and the normative foundations of “international
justice.” Norms and institutions are perverted in the pursuit of narrow interests, at the detriment of “
justice for victims.” Ultimately, the story of hope and progress that international criminal
justice tells itself may indeed just be reflective of, what Mégret termed “the feeling that the [ICC]’s ultimate constituency is nothing but itself.” Maybe someday the Court will revisit its “archive of teleology and...