international-criminal-tribunals-skills

Cour Pénale Spéciale de la République Centrafricaine (CPS) / Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic (SCC-CAR) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the CPS, the Loi organique n°15.003 of 3 June 2015, the RPP (Loi 18.010), the affaire Paoua / Lemouna et Koundjili (Issa Sallet Adoum et al.), the Ndélé cases, complementarity with the ICC's CAR situations, MINUSCA cooperation, the hybrid national-international composition, or any CPS document or case identifier. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every citation must be verified against cpsrca.cf or, when it is unreachable, the documented fallbacks (legal-tools.org, JusticeInfo, FIDH, HRW) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Loi organique 15.003, Loi 18.010, Code pénal centrafricain) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger any time CPS, Cour pénale spéciale, SCC-CAR, Paoua, Lemouna, Koundjili, Ndélé, or 3R appears in the request.

Chambres Africaines Extraordinaires (CAE) / Extraordinary African Chambers in the Courts of Senegal (EAC) research, drafting, and analysis — the Hissène Habré case. Use whenever the conversation involves the CAE/EAC, the AU-Senegal Accord of 22 August 2012, the Statute of the Chambers, the Habré trial (2015-2016), the Trial Judgment of 30 May 2016, the Reparations Decision of 29 July 2016, the Appeals Judgment of 27 April 2017 (82.290 billion CFA francs for 7,396 victims), ICJ Belgium v. Senegal (2012), the ECOWAS Court judgment (2010), universal jurisdiction in Africa, or the AU Trust Fund for Victims. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every citation must be verified against the EAC archives (forumchambresafricaines.org mirror) or legal-tools.org before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Accord UA-Sénégal 2012, Statut des CAE) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on CAE, EAC, Chambres Africaines, Hissène Habré, or the Habré trial.

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC, Khmer Rouge Tribunal) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the ECCC, Case 001 (Duch), Case 002 (NUON Chea, KHIEU Samphan) including the severance into Cases 002/01 and 002/02, Cases 003 and 004, the ECCC Law, the Internal Rules, the UN-Cambodia Agreement, the chambers and co-organs, civil party participation and reparations, JCE as applied at the ECCC, or any ECCC document or case identifier (e.g. Case 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/...). Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, order, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against eccc.gov.kh or legal-tools.org before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (ECCC Law as amended, UN-Cambodia Agreement, Internal Rules) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger any time ECCC, Extraordinary Chambers, Khmer Rouge Tribunal, or KRT appears, even if the user does not explicitly ask for ECCC research.

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT / MICT) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation touches the ad hoc UN tribunals or their residual mechanism — case law, judgments, decisions, indictments, filings — including landmark holdings on genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, joint criminal enterprise, command responsibility, and sexual violence. Enforces a verification-first citation discipline: no case citation appears in an output until verified against irmct.org, the Case Law Database, the Unified Court Records, the legacy sites, or legal-tools.org. Triggers on ICTY, ICTR, IRMCT, MICT, the Mechanism, Tadić, Akayesu, Krstić, Kunarac, Furundžija, Blaškić, Kambanda, Karadžić, Mladić, Kabuga, Srebrenica genocide, Rwanda genocide, Arusha, The Hague tribunals.

Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) — Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace — research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the JEP, the SIVJRNR / Sistema Integral para la Paz, the 2016 Final Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP, Acto Legislativo 01 de 2017, Ley Estatutaria 1957 de 2019, the 11 macrocasos (Caso 01 secuestro, Caso 03 falsos positivos, Caso 07 reclutamiento de menores, Caso 11 violencia sexual...), the Salas and the Tribunal Especial para la Paz, sanciones propias and TOAR, the régimen de condicionalidad, or the first restorative sentences of September 2025. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every resolución, sentencia, auto, or providencia citation must be verified against jep.gov.co before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Acuerdo Final 2016, Acto Legislativo 01/2017, Ley 1957/2019, Reglamento General) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on JEP, Sistema Integral, sanciones propias, falsos positivos, or Casos 01-11.

Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and Specialist Prosecutor's Office (SPO) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the KSC/KRSJI, the Thaçi et al. case (KSC-BC-2020-06; Thaçi, Veseli, Selimi, Krasniqi), Mustafa (KSC-BC-2020-05), Shala (KSC-BC-2020-04), Gucati and Haradinaj (KSC-BC-2020-07), Law No. 05/L-053, Article 162 of the Kosovo Constitution, the Marty Report (2011), KLA-related crimes 1998-2000, victim participation, the chamber structure, or any KSC document or case identifier. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against scp-ks.org or legal-tools.org before appearing in any output; appeal registry numbers are cited only once confirmed. Foundational texts (Law No. 05/L-053, Article 162, Rules of Procedure and Evidence) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on KSC, Kosovo Specialist Chambers, SPO, Thaçi, Veseli, Selimi, Krasniqi, or a KSC case identifier.

Post-WWII international military tribunals research, drafting, and analysis: the IMT at Nuremberg (1945-46), the twelve NMT trials under Control Council Law No. 10 (1946-49), and the IMTFE at Tokyo (1946-48). Use whenever the conversation involves Nuremberg, the Tokyo Trial, the London or Tokyo Charters, the IMT or IMTFE defendants (Göring, Speer, Tōjō, Hirota and the others), the twelve NMT cases (Justice, Doctors', Einsatzgruppen, High Command...), Class A/B/C crimes, the Nuremberg Principles, the Pal dissent, the Blue and Green Series, or the Pritchard-Zaide volumes. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every Charter, judgment, transcript, or exhibit citation must be verified against an authoritative source (Avalon, Harvard Nuremberg Trials Project, Stanford Taube Archive, UVA IMTFE Collection, legal-tools.org, JACAR) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on Nuremberg, IMT, NMT, IMTFE, or the Tokyo Trial.

Regulation 64 Panels (Kosovo) research, drafting, and analysis — the UNMIK international judges and prosecutors (IJP) mechanism in the Kosovo district courts, 2000-2008/09. Use whenever the conversation involves UNMIK Regulation 2000/64, the 64 Panels, Regulations 2000/6 and 2001/2, UNSC Resolution 1244 (1999), the abandoned KWECC, the Provisional Codes (Regulations 2003/25 and 2003/26), the transition to EULEX (Joint Action 2008/124/CFSP), or war crimes prosecuted by the Panels. Distinct from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (2015-present), which has its own skill. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every citation must be verified against authoritative archives (UNMIK legacy, EULEX, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, legal-tools.org) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (UNMIK Regulations 1999/1, 2000/6, 2000/64, 2001/2, 2003/25, 2003/26; UNSC Res 1244) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on Reg. 64, Regulation 64, 64 Panels, UNMIK international judges, or the IJP programme.

Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL, 2002-2013) and Residual Special Court (RSCSL) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the SCSL or RSCSL, Charles Taylor (SCSL-03-01), the AFRC (SCSL-04-16), CDF (SCSL-04-14) and RUF (SCSL-04-15) cases, the UN-Sierra Leone Agreement of 16 January 2002, UNSC Resolution 1315 (2000), the SCSL Statute, child-soldier recruitment as a war crime, forced marriage as a crime against humanity, or head-of-State immunity. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against rscsl.org or legal-tools.org before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (UN-Sierra Leone Agreement, SCSL Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger any time SCSL, RSCSL, Special Court for Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor, AFRC, CDF, or RUF appears in the request.

Special Panels for Serious Crimes of the Dili District Court (SPSC, 2000-2006) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the Special Panels, the Serious Crimes Unit (SCU), UNTAET and its Regulations 1999/1, 2000/11, 2000/15 and 2000/30, the 1999 referendum violence, the hybrid two-international-one-Timorese panels, the Los Palos case (Joni Marques et al.), Lolotoe, Cardoso, the Wiranto indictment, the SCIT successor (2008-2012), or the CAVR. Distinct from the Indonesian Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta and from the never-established international tribunal. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every citation must be verified against the documented archives (JSMP, UN archives, legal-tools.org) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (UNTAET Regulations 1999/1, 2000/11, 2000/15, 2000/30) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on Special Panels, SPSC, Dili District Court, Serious Crimes Unit, SCU, UNTAET, or East Timor serious crimes.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL / TSL) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the STL, the assassination of Rafiq Hariri (14 February 2005), the Ayyash et al. case (STL-11-01), Merhi, the related-attacks case (STL-18-10), the contempt cases (STL-14-05 New TV/Al-Khayat; STL-14-06 Akhbar Beirut/Al-Amin), UNSC Resolution 1757 (2007), the application of Lebanese criminal law, trial in absentia, the February 2011 Interlocutory Decision on terrorism, victim participation, or the closure of the STL in December 2023. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against the STL legacy archive or legal-tools.org before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (UN-Lebanon Agreement, Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger any time STL, TSL, Hariri tribunal, Ayyash, or Resolution 1757 appears.

War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (WCC-BiH) — Section I (War Crimes) of the State Court — research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the Court of BiH war crimes docket, the Special Department for War Crimes (SDWC), ICTY Rule 11 bis referrals (Stanković, Janković, Mejakić), the ICTY Completion Strategy, the hybrid-to-national transition of the bench, the 2008 National War Crimes Processing Strategy, or the Maktouf-Damjanović lex mitior line. Distinct from entity-level prosecutions in the Federation, Republika Srpska and Brčko District. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, or judgment citation must be verified against sudbih.gov.ba or institutional archives before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Law on the Court of BiH, Criminal Code of BiH 2003, Criminal Procedure Code 2003) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger on WCC, Sud BiH, State Court of Bosnia, Rule 11 bis, or SDWC.

Research, drafting, and analysis involving the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute system). Enforces a verification-first methodology — every case-law, decision, filing, warrant, and statement citation is verified against an authoritative primary source (icc-cpi.int, legal-tools.org) in the current conversation before it appears in an output. Foundational texts (Rome Statute, Elements of Crimes, RPE, Regulations of the Court) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Use whenever the user is working with ICC case law, OTP statements, ASP documents, or ICC procedure.