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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. Established by an agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Cambodia, the court has been operational since 2006, and seeks a mandate to try those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge period from 1975 to 1979. 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 a series of themes including legality, structure, proceedings, jurisprudence, legitimacy and legacy. This original book will prove a valuable and stimulating read for lawyers, judges and UN staff working within, establishing, or monitoring international courts and tribunals as well as local and international NGOs in Cambodia concerned with the ECCC. Academics focusing on international criminal justice will also find this useful to assess the value of the Extraordinary Chambers, both during the tribunal’s lifespan and after it has closed its doors.

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`It is, and should be, difficult to take such deeply heart-wrenching and disturbing events as a genocide and crimes against humanity `The Elgar Companion to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the ECCC and its contribution to international criminal law and -- justice. Having profited immensely from Professor Jorgensen's comprehensive and careful overview of the procedural and substantive analysis of the work carried out by the ECCC, I highly recommend her book.' - Michael G. Karnavas, International Criminal Law Blog `This is an important book, about a court which faced immense challenges and a bad press, but has nonetheless contributed both to criminal jurisprudence and to rebuilding confidence in the rule of law in Cambodia. It is astute and authoritative - Jorgensen's analysis comes with the knowledge of an insider and the objectivity of a brilliant jurist. The book is essential reading for architects of tribunals to deal with atrocities elsewhere in the world, and for all students of the struggle for global justice in the twenty-first century.' -- Geoffrey Robertson, author of Crimes Against Humanity

'It is, and should be, difficult to take such deeply heart-wrenching and disturbing events as a genocide and crimes against humanity 'The Elgar Companion to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the ECCC and its contribution to international criminal law and -- justice. Having profited immensely from Professor Jorgensen's comprehensive and careful overview of the procedural and substantive analysis of the work carried out by the ECCC, I highly recommend her book.' - Michael G. Karnavas, International Criminal Law Blog 'This is an important book, about a court which faced immense challenges and a bad press, but has nonetheless contributed both to criminal jurisprudence and to rebuilding confidence in the rule of law in Cambodia. It is astute and authoritative - Jorgensen's analysis comes with the knowledge of an insider and the objectivity of a brilliant jurist. The book is essential reading for architects of tribunals to deal with atrocities elsewhere in the world, and for all students of the struggle for global justice in the twenty-first century.' -- Geoffrey Robertson, author of Crimes Against Humanity

`The Elgar Companion to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the ECCC and its contribution to international criminal law and -- justice. Having profited immensely from Professor Jorgensen's comprehensive and careful overview of the procedural and substantive analysis of the work carried out by the ECCC, I highly recommend her book.' - Michael G. Karnavas, International Criminal Law Blog `This is an important book, about a court which faced immense challenges and a bad press, but has nonetheless contributed both to criminal jurisprudence and to rebuilding confidence in the rule of law in Cambodia. It is astute and authoritative - Jorgensen's analysis comes with the knowledge of an insider and the objectivity of a brilliant jurist. The book is essential reading for architects of tribunals to deal with atrocities elsewhere in the world, and for all students of the struggle for global justice in the twenty-first century.' -- Geoffrey Robertson, author of Crimes Against Humanity

`This is an important book, about a court which faced immense challenges and a bad press, but has nonetheless contributed both to criminal jurisprudence and to rebuilding confidence in the rule of law in Cambodia. It is astute and authoritative - Jorgensen's analysis comes with the knowledge of an insider and the objectivity of a brilliant jurist. The book is essential reading for architects of tribunals to deal with atrocities elsewhere in the world, and for all students of the struggle for global justice in the twenty-first century.' -- Geoffrey Robertson, author of Crimes Against Humanity

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Nina H.B. Jørgensen, School of Law, University of Southampton, UK

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