The artificial and inadequate International Court of Justice is the least useful approach to resolving separatist conflicts, as its recent ruling on Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia makes clear.

In March 2004, the United Nations’ International Court of Justice at the Hague (ICJ), which settles legal disputes between UN member states, heard the Avena case, which involves more than fifty Mexican nationals who are now on death row in the United States. In this case, Mexico brought suit, alleging...

The International Court of Justice's grandiose ambitions are leading it down the path set by the Permanent Court of International Justice--the ill-fated judicial organ of the League of Nations.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea returns to the fore, and this time, it may well become ratified.

The United States has many alternative foreign policy instruments to utilize that are fully consistent with our national interests, leaving the International Criminal Court to the obscurity it so richly deserves.