Vlasic is a senior fellow and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and a principal at Madison Law & Strategy Group.Vlasic served as a White House Fellow/special assistant to the Secretary of Defense and served on the Slobodan Milosevic and Srebrenica genocide prosecution trial teams at the United Nations war crimes tribunal. Does last month’s conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor set precedence for other war criminals? Yes! Taylor is the first major head of state to be convicted by an international tribunal. From this point forward, prosecutors and judges at future head of state trials will look to this case for jurisprudence — and hopefully — current and potential future war criminals will take notice that the impunity so often associated with such crimes is slowly coming to an end.