The year 2020 will remain in mem­o­ries, by and large, as a peri­od unlike any oth­er. The covid-19 pan­dem­ic has turned around count­less lives, and con­tin­ues to do so as we write these lines. State insti­tu­tions world­wide, includ­ing judi­cial bod­ies, have had to dras­ti­cal­ly change their func­tion­ing and pri­or­i­ties. With so many activ­i­ties com­ing to a bru­tal halt, have cas­es relat­ed to uni­ver­sal juris­dic­tion also stalled? Luck­i­ly, far from it.