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Observations on International Justice

By Jerome Socolovsky
Published November 3, 2007 at 8:00 AM EDT

The Hague tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and, most recently, the Madrid train bombings in Spain have all resulted in closely watched trials that tested the boundaries of international justice.

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Jerome Socolovsky
Jerome Socolovsky is the Audio Storytelling Specialist for NPR Training. He has been a reporter and editor for more than two decades, mostly overseas. Socolovsky filed stories for NPR on bullfighting, bullet trains, the Madrid bombings and much more from Spain between 2002 and 2010. He has also been a foreign and international justice correspondent for The Associated Press, religion reporter for the Voice of America and editor-in-chief of Religion News Service. He won the Religion News Association's TV reporting award in 2013 and 2014 and an honorable mention from the Association of International Broadcasters in 2011. Socolovsky speaks five languages in addition to his native Spanish and English. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and graduate degrees from Hebrew University and the Harvard Kennedy School. He's also a sculler and a home DIY nut.