Suggested Citation:German High Courts Confront Serbian War Crimes, 2 German Law Journal (2001), available at http://www.germanlawjournal.com/index.php?pageID=11&artID=64 In two recent decisions the German federal courts engaged in the interpretation and application of international criminal and humanitarian law, pursuant to the codification of those norms in German criminal law. Both cases involved appeals of convictions secured in lower German courts against Serbs who participated in the atrocities of the Serbian ethnic-cleansing (perpetrated against Bosnian Muslims) in the then newly independent Bosnia-Herzegovina.