SMU Professor of Law Mark Findlay highlighted the need to study how criminal justice systems can better serve the victims of war crimes and called for more cross-disciplinary research in the legal field. His research focuses on the constituency of global justice, and investigates how victim communities can more effectively participate and be satisfactorily involved in their judicial outcomes. The applied dimension of this research is to assist institutions such as the International Criminal Court in delivering justice more effectively. Prof Findlay’s early research focused on the unique features and challenges of global justice versus nation-state level crime and security issues. His findings showed that victims demand more than just prosecution and punishment of offenders for their actions. This knowledge motivated Prof Findlay to study alternative outcomes which the justice system could focus on. His book International and Comparative Criminal Justice: a critical introduction (2013) examined these issues from a wide cultural perspective.