Can There Be International Law?

God help me, I do love the law. When Mr. Cancer came for me, I resigned my judgeship and made my license inactive, so I can no longer practice in any court. The federal courts to which I’m admitted require that I be in good standing with some state Bar. My point is that I’m sitting in the cheap seats now.

For international law, I’ve always been in the cheap seats. I can only recall two things I did as a judge that even touched the law of nations, both involving immigration, unless you count an undergraduate escapade smuggling anti-apartheid literature into the Republic of…