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In comments a while back, Mike Staresinic came up with a fascinating comment:

The human rights story of the past 6 decades is a kind of Moore’s Law in crimes against humanity, in that the feedback between crime and comeuppance is ever shortened.

Perhaps we can go further - it’s partly because of the improvements in technology brought about by Moore’s Law that the gap between crime and punishment in international law has been narrowed.

Apropos of the recent article in the CSM, I think we’re just beginning to see how technology can have a real impact in this regard - primarily in terms of documentation, but also in terms of making sure that justice is seen to be done (as per the ICTY website). The question is, will international law be able to take full advantage of these new developments? Notwithstanding Mike’s comment, the wheels of justice continue to grind exceedingly slow…