If you had the misfortune to read Jane Mayer’s paean to Philippe Sands, the British lawyer behind spanish judge Baltasar Garzón’s recent inquest against Bush administration officials, in this week’s New Yorker — I highly suggest you also read the antidote.

In the latest Weekly Standard, Mario Loyola and Jeremy Rabkin have done an excellent job picking apart Sands and Garzón’s specious reasoning here, as well as explaining the broader threats posed by trying to impose transnational legal authority.