DNA plays an indispensable role in modern law enforcement, and courts uniformly find that DNA extraction statutes targeting criminals satisfy the Fourth Amendment. Courts differ on which Fourth Amendment test--totality of the circumstances or special needs--ought to be employed in this context. This Note concludes that courts should apply Samson v. California's less stringent totality of the ci...

the will of international community to implement justice and to put an end to the impunity for the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and the genocide lead to the establishment of international criminal court (icc). the icc is expected to prosecute and punish international criminals in order to prevent committing such crimes in the future. following the creation of the court in...

In November 1994 the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), indicted its first accused, Dragan Nikolić. It was not until over five years later, however, in April 2000, that he was finally arrested and transferred to TheHague. The circumstances of his arrest – which reportedly featured his being violently abducted from his home in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FR...

Women suffered greatly during the wars in former Yugoslavia, particularly Bosnia and Herzegovina. They lost everything they owned, were widowed, had to flee, victims of sexual violence or even their lives. Most have never gotten over trauma from war. Many tormentors still been brought justice. At same time, there also women who supported military conflict ethnic hate as spreaders propaganda, na...

Abstract The introduction of rewards for the conviction serious criminals fundamentally transformed English criminal justice. prospect totalling up to £140 encouraged additional prosecutions, more full (as opposed partial) guilty verdicts, and death sentences. In process, in a series largely unintended consequences, two fundamental pillars early-modern justice were undermined: reliance on publi...