New initiatives have been aired recently in high political circles about creating two new courts to deal respectively with piracy off the Horn of Africa (stemming from Somalia), which continues to make headlines, and nuclear security issues. Not long ago, there was a Dutch proposal that the UN should support the establishment of a tribunal to try Somali pirates, preferably located in Kenya, to work under the supervision of the UN. Russia also seems supportive of the idea. Many countries are not keen to try the pirates themselves, primarily for lack of legislation and other related issues. Case in point,…