What can international justice do to stop the war? An editorial and a question

Devastating conflicts are ongoing in the Middle-East, Ukraine and other parts of the world. Obviously, war is not the only concern of international law. Unques- tionable failures range from the attempts to institutionalize world trade to the efforts to produce increasingly less binding rules on environmental matters. But control of the use of force is certainly the bottom line for any decent legal order, and international law is no exception. At the same time international courts and tribunals are increasingly involved in the settlement of the disputes relating to war. Hence the authors raise the question of what international justice can do in that respect.