Supporters of international and domestic criminal trials for atrocity crimes argue that, among other things, trials will prevent genocide in the future by deterring would-be genocidaires by ending impunity and attaching responsibility for atrocity crimes to individuals rather than groups. The...

Given that the Rome Statute does not provide jurisdiction to try corporations for breaches of international criminal law, it has been suggested that national jurisdictions might be used to fill this impunity gap. The author presents several arguments. First, the international criminal law...

This article examines the dominant perceptions of war crimes trials among victims from Prijedor, a municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Largely based on interviews with victims who have testified in trials before international, state and district courts, and victims who have never testified,...