Devin Pendas is a historian of Holocaust trials and international law. He is the author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law and the forthcoming Law and Democracy: Transitional Justice in German Courts, 1945-1950, and is the editor or co-editor of several forthcoming books, including Political Trials in History and Theory. He works hard to maintain his faith in the rule of law in a world where it fails all too often.