IN international law, piracy was the first international crime with pirates considered as enemies of humanity and commands universal jurisdiction. In short, it is an offense against the law of nations. As an international crime, piracy is now further defined in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Article 101). In 1948, piracy was followed by a new international crime, genocide, an offshoot of the Nuremberg trials of Nazis involved in the mass extermination of Jews. It is at present an offense triable by the International Criminal Court (ICC), created by the Rome Statute (2002). Now comes ecocide for international consideration as an international crime.