Even the most dedicated partisans of international justice concede that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has had many shortcomings. All those associated with it were new to such proceedings, and had to learn on the job, as there had been no such bodies since the courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II.
即使是国际司法最忠实的拥护者也不得不承认前南斯拉夫国际刑事法庭有许多缺陷。由于在二战后的纽伦堡和东京法庭之后就再也没有这样的机构了，因此，这一法庭的所有人员都是这一司法程序的新手，他们不得不边干边学。