Since the 1980s, there has been a significant rise in domestic and international efforts to enforce individual criminal accountability for…
Book abstract: Since the hit HBO show The Wire premiered on June 2, 2002, it was viewed as much more than a typical police procedural. Over…
The justice cascade refers to a new global trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for past human rights violations…
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC, Professor Burns lauds…
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men…
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do…
Despite evidence on how malpractice risk varies according to physician specialty, there is growing but still limited evidence about…
Wartime rape is neither ubiquitous nor inevitable. The level of sexual violence differs significantly across countries, conflicts, and…
It is hard to remember, on President Obama’s second inauguration, that less than a decade ago he was a relatively unknown Senate candidate…