“Sometimes it can be more important to criticise or take on some of your closest allies,” he said. “If we move into a global community where we speak out only when our adversaries violate the law, and not where our friends do so, then the law will eventually collapse.”

While many commentators argue that international law is effectively dead following Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the abduction of Venezuela’s president, and the war on Iran, Kravik insists the reality is more nuanced. “I think it’s clear that international law matters. I think it’s clear that it has to matter,” he said.

“Without international law, without multilateralism, which is very closely linked to international law, we’re not going to be able to preserve international stability.”

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“The fact that some third states who aren’t party to the court have decided to sanction court officials for just doing their jobs is unconscionable,” he said, adding that “the integrity and the mandate of the ICC has never been more important.”