The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia

Author : Simon M. Meisenberg,Ignaz Stegmiller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462651050

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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia by Simon M. Meisenberg,Ignaz Stegmiller Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study on the work and functioning of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The ECCC were established in 2006 to bring to trial senior leaders and those most responsible for serious crimes committed under the notorious Khmer Rouge regime. Established by domestic law following an agreement in 2003 between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the UN, the ECCC’s hybrid features provide a unique approach of accountability for mass atrocities. The book entails an analysis of the work and jurisprudence of the ECCC, providing a detailed assessment of their legacies and contribution to international criminal law. The collection, containing 20 chapters from leading scholars and practitioners with inside knowledge of the ECCC, discuss the most pressing topics and its implications for international criminal law. These include the establishment of the ECCC, subject matter crimes, joint criminal enterprise and procedural aspects, including questions regarding the trying of frail accused persons and the admission of torture statements into evidence. Simon M. Meisenberg is an Attorney-at-Law in Germany, formerly he was a Legal Advisor to the ECCC and a Senior Legal Officer at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Ignaz Stegmiller is Coordinator for the International Programs of the Faculty of Law at the Franz von Liszt Institute for International and Comparative Law, Giessen, Germany.

Author : John D. Ciorciari,Anne Heindel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472119301

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Hybrid Justice by John D. Ciorciari,Anne Heindel Pdf

A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives

Author : Nina H.B. Jørgensen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784718077

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The Elgar Companion to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia by Nina H.B. Jørgensen Pdf

This Companion is a one-stop reference resource on the Phnom Penh based ‘Khmer Rouge tribunal'. It serves as an introduction to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, while also exploring some of the Court’s practical and jurisprudential challenges and outcomes. Written by Nina Jørgensen, who has worked as senior adviser in the tribunal’s Pre-Trial and Supreme Court Chambers, the Companion offers both direct insights and academic analysis organized around six themes: legality, structure, proceedings, jurisprudence, legitimacy and legacy. This comprehensive Companion will provide a platform for interested sectors of domestic and international society, to assess the value of the Extraordinary Chambers, both during the tribunal’s lifespan and after it has closed its doors.

Author : Susan R. Lamb
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480030

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Reconciliation v. Accountability by Susan R. Lamb Pdf

Author : Ricarda Popa
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783640518029

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The Contribution of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia to the Establishment of a Hybrid Tribunal Model by Ricarda Popa Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 1, University of Marburg (Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy), course: Transitional Justice - Research Seminar, language: English, abstract: This research paper exemplifies the contribution of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to the establishment of a hybrid tribunal model as an instrument for prosecuting serious criminal offenses committed systematically during conflicts. The research sphere is demarcated by the world’s 3rd hybrid tribunal novelty, and its participation in the advancement of a hybrid tribunal model, as internationalized judicial instrument of correction of those atrocities against humanity that where committed methodically with political purposes in times of authoritarian regimes or armed conflicts of different origin. The interest arises from the awareness that by entering into force of the International Criminal Court in The Hague/ICC in 2002, a shift of significance has taken place from the international level back to the domestic one, in dealing with serious crimes. In the context of radical changes, the ECCC comes to strengthen the hybrid tribunal instrument as a judicial organization form with multidimensional benefits, and to offer it sustainability to the advantage of other post-conflict societies.

Author : Rebecca Gidley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030047832

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Illiberal Transitional Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia by Rebecca Gidley Pdf

This book examines the creation and operation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which is a hybrid domestic/international tribunal tasked with putting senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge on trial. It argues that the ECCC should be considered an example of illiberal transitional justice, where the language of procedure is strongly adhered to but political considerations often rule in reality. The Cambodian government spent nearly two decades addressing the Khmer Rouge past, and shaping its preferred narrative, before the involvement of the United Nations. It was a further six years of negotiations between the Cambodian government and the United Nations that determined the unique hybrid structure of the ECCC. Over more than a decade in operation, and with three people convicted, the ECCC has not contributed to the positive goals expected of transitional justice mechanisms. Through the Cambodian example, this book challenges existing assumptions and analyses of transitional justice to create a more nuanced understanding of how and why transitional justice mechanisms are employed.

Author : Peter Manning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317007241

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Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia by Peter Manning Pdf

Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practices have been put to work in the name of redressing, restoring and renewing memory. At the centre of this stage is the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid tribunal established to prosecute the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, under which 1.6 million Cambodians died of hunger or disease or were executed. This book unpicks the way memory is reconstructed through appeals to a national memory, the legal reframing and coding of memories as crimes, and bids to locate personal memories within collective biographies. Analysing the techniques and interventions of the ECCC, as well as exploring the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the book explores the relationships in which Cambodian communities navigate memories of political violence. This book is essential for understanding transitional justice in Cambodia in, and beyond, the courtroom. Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia shows that the governing logic of transitional justice interventions – that societies are unable to 'deal with' memories of atrocity and violence without some form of transitional justice mechanism – neglects the complexity of memory and remembering in post-atrocity contexts and the agency of the subjects to which such mechanisms are addressed. Drawing on documentary sources, legal transcripts, interviews and participant observation data, the book situates transitional justice processes in Cambodia within a wider context of social and cultural memory politics, examining (old and new) conflicts of memory that have emerged between the varied accounts and uses of the past that exist in Cambodia now. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, human rights, law and criminology.

Author : Claudia Tofan,Willem-Jan van der Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-08
Category : Trials (Crimes against humanity)
ISBN : 905887222X

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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia by Claudia Tofan,Willem-Jan van der Wolf Pdf

In 1997, Cambodia established a Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force to create a legal and judicial structure to try the remaining leaders for war crimes and other crimes against humanity. Under the agreement between Cambodia and the UN, the Tribunal was composed of both local and international judges. On July 19, 2007, the prosecutors submitted a list of five charged persons to the Tribunal's co-investigating judges and requested that they be indicted and brought to trial. On February 4, 2008, the Tribunal held its first hearing. The series of volumes in this collection provide for the complete documentation on the work of the court. Basic documents, transcripts, and other relevant documentation of the court are reproduced.

Author : Craig Etcheson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231550727

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Extraordinary Justice by Craig Etcheson Pdf

In just a few short years, the Khmer Rouge presided over one of the twentieth century’s cruelest reigns of terror. Since its 1979 overthrow, there have been several attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable, from a People’s Revolutionary Tribunal shortly afterward through the early 2000s Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Extraordinary Justice offers a definitive account of the quest for justice in Cambodia that uses this history to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the interaction between law and politics in war crimes tribunals. Craig Etcheson, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath, draws on decades of experience to trace the evolution of transitional justice in the country from the late 1970s to the present. He considers how war crimes tribunals come into existence, how they operate and unfold, and what happens in their wake. Etcheson argues that the concepts of legality that hold sway in such tribunals should be understood in terms of their orientation toward politics, both in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and generally. A magisterial chronicle of the inner workings of postconflict justice, Extraordinary Justice challenges understandings of the relationship between politics and the law, with important implications for the future of attempts to seek accountability for crimes against humanity.

Author : Mark Kersten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191082948

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Justice in Conflict by Mark Kersten Pdf

What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.

Author : Claudia Tofan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134515894

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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia by Claudia Tofan Pdf

In 1997, Cambodia established a Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force to create a legal and judicial structure to try the remaining leaders for war crimes and other crimes against humanity. Under the agreement between Cambodia and the UN, the Tribunal was composed of both local and international judges. On July 19, 2007, the prosecutors submitted a list of five charged persons to the Tribunal's co-investigating judges and requested that they be indicted and brought to trial. On February 4, 2008, the Tribunal held its first hearing. The series of volumes in this collection provide for the complete documentation on the work of the court. Basic documents, transcripts, and other relevant documentation of the court are reproduced.

Author : Cheryl S. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : 1780684401

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Bridging Divides in Transitional Justice by Cheryl S. White Pdf

The backdrop to Bridging Divides in Transitional Justice is Cambodia's history of radical Communist revolution (1975-1979) under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, and the culture of impunity and silence imposed on the society by successive national governments for close to three decades. Dialogue on the suppressed past began in 2006 as key figures of the regime were brought before the in situ internationalized criminal court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This book engages with the dissonance between the expressivism of idealized international criminal trials and their communicative or discursive value within the societies most affected by their operation. An alternative view of the transitional trial is posited as the author elucidates the limits of expressivism and explores the communicative dynamics of ECCC trial procedure which have precipitated unprecedented local debate and reflection on the Khmer Rouge era. From transcripts of the proceedings, exchanges between trial participants-including witnesses, civil parties and the accused-are examined to show how, at times, the retributive proceedings assumed the character of restorative justice and encompassed significant dialogue on current social issues, such as the victim/perpetrator equation and the nature of ongoing post-traumatic stress disorder flowing from the events that took place under this violent regime. This title is a revised & edited dissertation. (Series: Series on Transitional Justice, Vol. 23) Subject: Cambodian Law, Criminal Law, International Law]

Author : Elisa Hoven,Mareike Feiler,Saskia Scheibel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783732270620

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Victims in Trials of Mass Crimes by Elisa Hoven,Mareike Feiler,Saskia Scheibel Pdf

The Cologne Occasional Papers on International Peace and Security Law cover essays, studies and expert's reports on current public international law issues. The series is edited by Claus Kreß.

Author : Claudia Tofan,Willem-Jan van der Wolf
Publisher : International Courts Assoc
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9058872246

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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia by Claudia Tofan,Willem-Jan van der Wolf Pdf

In 1997, Cambodia established a Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force to create a legal and judicial structure to try the remaining leaders for war crimes and other crimes against humanity. Under the agreement between Cambodia and the UN, the Tribunal was composed of both local and international judges. On July 19, 2007, the prosecutors submitted a list of five charged persons to the Tribunal's co-investigating judges and requested that they be indicted and brought to trial. On February 4, 2008, the Tribunal held its first hearing. The series of volumes in this collection provide for the complete documentation on the work of the court. Basic documents, transcripts, and other relevant documentation of the court are reproduced.

Author : Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198820949

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The Justice Facade by Alexander Laban Hinton Pdf

For survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton's account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual, and unmediated dialogue can provide true healing.