Article Title
Prosecuting Mass Atrocities at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
Publication Title
Washington University Global Studies Law Review
Abstract
After a lapse of nearly a quarter century, the United Nations and the Cambodian government agreed in 2003 to establish a hybrid internationalised domestic tribunal in an effort to address the legacy of impunity left in the wake of the Khmer Rouge regime. Several features make the Khmer Rouge Tribunal a unique experiment in international justice. It is the first internationalised court to seat a majority of judges from the affected nation. It is the first hybrid court to be established using a primarily civil law framework. Consequently, it was also the first to accord a central role to victims, who can join the proceedings as civil parties.
Recommended Citation
Andrew T. Cayley,
Prosecuting Mass Atrocities at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC),
11
Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev.
445
(2012),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol11/iss2/6