I just today stumbled across this month-old article reporting on the Dutch foreign minister’s demand for a UN backed tribunal for the trial of pirates in the East African countries. We have reported earlier on the apparent desire among certain (European) States to establish such an international court (inter alia to avoid any pirates being taken to those countries which would entail according costs and unpleasantness) and this seems to be another strong argument in the same direction. I still fail to understand, however, how the States that support the creation of such a court could possibly be willing to…