Unfinished

This essay examines the unfinished as both a diagnostic and a tactic for how we engage with the terrain of international criminal law (ICL). The diagnostic: recognizing that justice struggles against a five-hundred-year racial-capitalist world order are unfinished and ongoing. The tactic: seeking opportunities for strategically interrupting ICL procedures to keep the ends of justice an open question. In articulating this notion of the unfinished, this essay analyzes the implications of this diagnostic for challenging and troubling how justice is defined and delimited within the terms of ICL, while also exploring the strategy and tactics of “unfinishing” in reframing the ends of ICL.