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“Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared as Washington imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court. It is a stark sign of a growing tension between national power and international law, between great powers and the institutions meant to hold them to account. Call it might-makes-right versus universal values. Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), stands firmly on the side of universal values. Under her leadership, CEJIL has helped bring more than 200 cases before the Inter-American human rights system, on issues from violence against women to climate. In this conversation, she explains why winning cases is only the beginning, and how the law can change the systems that allow abuses in the first place.