sovereignty and erosion of power at the state level for many critics of the idea. There are other problematic areas such questions of jurisdiction and the enforcement of verdicts, but overall the notion of an international court should be a welcome one for democratic states who support the rule of law.
             The push for an international justice system over and above the sovereignty of individual states has not been a recent development.It is generally agreed that the first ad hoc International Criminal Court sat in 1474 to judge Peter Von Hagenbach on crimes committed during the siege of the town of Breisach. The idea of an International Criminal Court was revived in the 19th century by Gustave Moynier to judge violations of the Geneva Convention of 1864. After the failure of the attempts to establish an International Tribunal after the First World War, the Tribunals of Nuremberg and Tokyo effectively functioned as such after the Second World War and convicted several dozen people, thus laying the foundations for international criminal justice.
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