Democracy Under Arrest: ‘Universal’ human – rights law never seems to apply to the likes of Kim Jong Il.

John Bolton writes at the Wall Street Journal:  ”‘Universal jurisdiction” sounds like a term plucked from obscure international law journals, but it has pernicious and profoundly antidemocratic consequences in the real world. A British arrest warrant, issued over the weekend in London for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, shows precisely why . . . Today’s version of universal jurisdiction masquerades as a legal concept, but is in fact a form of political morality.”