Illiberal Transitional Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

• Main Author: Gidley, Rebecca (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
• Subjects: Southeast Asia-History.; History, Modern.; Law-History.; World politics.; History of Southeast Asia.; Modern History.; Legal History.; Political History.

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 transit...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The State of Transitional Justice
• 3. Confronting the Past, 1975-1996
• 4. The Development and Evolution of the ECCC, 1997-2003
• 5. The ECCC in Action, 2003-2018
• 6. Breaking the Mould: Cambodia and the Transitional Justice Literature
• 7. Distinguishing Cambodia and Explaining the Existence of the ECCC
• 8. Conclusion.