Research & Analysis Workflows

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the ECCC, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Case 001 (Duch), Case 002 (Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith) including the severance into Case 002/01 and Case 002/02, Case 003 (Meas Muth), Case 004 (Im Chaem, Ao An, Yim Tith), the ECCC Law, the ECCC Internal Rules, the UN-Cambodia Agreement, ECCC procedure (Pre-Trial Chamber, Trial Chamber, Supreme Court Chamber, Office of the Co-Investigating Judges, Office of the Co-Prosecutors), civil party participation, reparations at the ECCC, joint criminal enterprise (JCE) as applied at the ECCC, crimes within ECCC jurisdiction (genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, 1956 Cambodian Penal Code offences), closing orders, indictments, judgments, appeals, or citation of any ECCC document. 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 this skill any time ECCC, Extraordinary Chambers, Khmer Rouge Tribunal, KRT, or ECCC case identifiers (e.g. Case 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/...) appear in the request, even if the user does not explicitly ask for ECCC research.

Research, drafting, and analysis involving the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute system).

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

Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) — Colombia / Special Jurisdiction for Peace research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the JEP, the Sistema Integral de Verdad, Justicia, Reparación y No Repetición (SIVJRNR) / Sistema Integral para la Paz, the 24 November 2016 Final Peace Agreement (Acuerdo Final) between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP, the Acto Legislativo 01 of 2017, Ley Estatutaria 1957 of 2019 (the Estatutaria de la JEP), the 11 macrocasos (Caso 01 secuestro / kidnapping by FARC-EP, Caso 02 Nariño territorial, Caso 03 falsos positivos / asesinatos y desapariciones forzadas ilegítimamente presentadas como bajas en combate por agentes del Estado, Caso 04 Urabá territorial, Caso 05 Norte del Cauca y sur del Valle del Cauca territorial, Caso 06 victimización Unión Patriótica, Caso 07 reclutamiento de niñas y niños, Caso 08 crímenes Fuerza Pública en asocio con paramilitares, Caso 09 crímenes contra pueblos étnicos, Caso 10 crímenes FARC-EP, Caso 11 violencia sexual), the Sala de Reconocimiento de Verdad / Sala de Definición de Situaciones Jurídicas / Sala de Amnistía o Indulto / Tribunal Especial para la Paz / Sección de Reconocimiento de Verdad / Sección de Ausencia de Reconocimiento, the principles of sanciones propias / alternativas / ordinarias, the Trabajos, Obras y Actividades con contenido Reparador y Restaurador (TOAR), the Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (CEV), the Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas dadas por Desaparecidas (UBPD), the régimen de condicionalidad, the comparecientes (FARC-EP, Fuerza Pública, terceros civiles), the first sentences of September 2025, or any JEP document or case identifier. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, resolución, sentencia, auto, or providencia citation must be verified against jep.gov.co (the official JEP website) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Acuerdo Final 2016, Acto Legislativo 01 of 2017, Ley Estatutaria 1957 of 2019, Reglamento General de la JEP) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger this skill any time JEP, Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Sistema Integral, sanciones propias, falsos positivos, Caso 01-11, FARC-EP, Acuerdo de Paz Colombia, or any related identifier appears in the request.

Post-WWII international military tribunals — research, drafting, and analysis. Covers (i) the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT, 1945-1946), (ii) the twelve subsequent United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 (NMT, 1946-1949), and (iii) the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo (IMTFE, 1946-1948). Use whenever the conversation involves Nuremberg, IMT, IMTFE, the Tokyo Trial, the London Charter, the Tokyo Charter, MacArthur's Special Proclamation of 19 January 1946, the major IMT defendants (Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, Dönitz, Raeder, von Schirach, Sauckel, Jodl, Bormann, von Papen, Seyss-Inquart, Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche), the IMTFE defendants (Tojo, Hirota, Doihara, Matsui, Itagaki, Kimura, Mutō, and the others), the twelve subsequent NMT trials (Justice Case, Doctors' Trial, Einsatzgruppen, High Command, IG Farben, Hostages, Ministries, RuSHA, Pohl, Krupp, Milch, Flick), Class A / B / C crimes, the Nuremberg Principles (UNGA Res. 95(I) 1946, ILC 1950), the Pal dissent, Röling dissent, Bernard dissent, Robert Jackson's opening statement, Joseph Keenan, Sir William Webb, the Blue Series, the Green Series, the Pritchard-Zaide volumes, the Tokyo Charter, or the Class A war crimes proceedings. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every citation of any Charter, judgment, transcript, exhibit, or filing must be verified against an authoritative source (Avalon Project, Harvard Nuremberg Trials Project, Stanford Taube Archive, UVA IMTFE Digital Collection, ICC Legal Tools Database, Library of Congress, UN Audiovisual Library, JACAR, or one of the listed university collections) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger this skill any time Nuremberg, IMT, NMT, IMTFE, Tokyo Trial, the named defendants or judges, or the post-WWII tribunals are mentioned, even if the user does not explicitly ask for Nuremberg / Tokyo research.

Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL, 2002-2013) and the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL, 2013-) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the SCSL, the RSCSL, Charles Taylor, the AFRC case (SCSL-04-16), the CDF case (SCSL-04-14), the RUF case (SCSL-04-15), the Taylor case (SCSL-03-01), the Norman, Fofana, Kondewa, Brima, Kamara, Kanu, Sesay, Kallon, Gbao accused, the Civil Defence Forces, the Revolutionary United Front, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, the Agreement of 16 January 2002 between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone, UN Security Council Resolution 1315 (2000), the SCSL Statute, the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, child soldiers as a war crime, forced marriage as a crime against humanity, sexual slavery, the destruction of religious or cultural property, or any SCSL/RSCSL document or case identifier. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against rscsl.org (the official Residual Special Court website) 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 this skill any time SCSL, RSCSL, Special Court Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor case, AFRC, CDF, RUF cases, or any related case identifier appears in the request.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL / TSL — Tribunal Spécial pour le Liban) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the STL, the Hariri investigation, the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri on 14 February 2005, the Ayyash et al. case (STL-11-01), the Merhi case (STL-13-04), the related-attacks cases (STL-18-10 against Salim Ayyash on the El-Murr, Hawi and Hamadeh attacks; STL-14-05 New TV S.A.L. and Al-Khayat contempt case; STL-14-06 Akhbar Beirut S.A.L. and Al-Amin contempt case), the Statute of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, UN Security Council Resolution 1757 (2007), the UN-Lebanon Agreement of February 2007, the STL Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the application of Lebanese criminal law (Articles 314, 188-189, 270, 549 of the Lebanese Criminal Code, the 1958 Law on Increasing the Punishments of Sedition, Civil War and Inter-Confessional Strife), trial in absentia under Article 22 of the Statute, the STL's landmark February 2011 Interlocutory Decision on the Applicable Law (defining terrorism as a crime under customary international law), victim participation under Rule 86, sentencing, the closure of the STL on 31 December 2023 and the residual mechanism, or any STL document or case identifier. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against stl-tsl.org (legacy site, archived) 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 this skill any time STL, TSL, Tribunal Spécial Liban, Hariri tribunal, Ayyash, Resolution 1757, or any STL case identifier appears in the request, even if the user does not explicitly ask for STL research.

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, la Cour pénale spéciale centrafricaine, la SCC, the Special Criminal Court of CAR, the Loi organique n°15.003 du 3 juin 2015, the Règlement de procédure et de preuve (Loi 18.010 of July 2018), the affaire Paoua / Lemouna et Koundjili (Procureur spécial contre Issa Sallet Adoum, Yaouba Ousman et Mahamat Tahir), the affaire Ndélé / Ndélé contumace, complementarity with the ICC's CAR Situation I (2002-2003) and CAR Situation II (2012-onwards), the Bangui Forum recommendations, the MINUSCA cooperation with the CPS, the Memorandum of Understanding of August 2014, the 3R group (Retour, Réclamation, Réhabilitation), the anti-balaka and Seleka factions, the integration of the CPS in the Central African national judicial system, the hybrid composition (13 national + 12 international magistrates), the relationship with the ICC Bemba and Yekatom & Ngaïssona cases, or any CPS document or case identifier. Enforces a verification-first discipline: every case-law, decision, indictment, filing, or judgment citation must be verified against cpsrca.cf (the official CPS website) before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Loi organique 15.003, Loi 18.010 on RPE, Code pénal centrafricain) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger this skill any time CPS, Cour pénale spéciale, SCC-CAR, Special Criminal Court CAR, Issa Sallet Adoum, Paoua, Lemouna, Koundjili, Ndélé, 3R, or any related case identifier appears in the request.

Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and Specialist Prosecutor's Office (SPO) research, drafting, and analysis. Use whenever the conversation involves the KSC, the Specialist Chambers, the Kosovo Relocated Specialist Judicial Institution (KRSJI), the SPO, the Thaçi et al. case (KSC-BC-2020-06) involving Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi, the Mustafa case (KSC-BC-2020-05), the Shala case (KSC-BC-2020-04), the Gucati and Haradinaj contempt case (KSC-BC-2020-07), the Januzi-Bahtijari-Haxhi Shala case (KSC-BC-2023-10), the Thaçi et al. administration of justice case (KSC-BC-2024-11), the Law on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office (Law No. 05/L-053), Article 162 of the Kosovo Constitution, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Report ("Marty Report") of 7 January 2011, allegations of crimes by Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members during and after the conflict in Kosovo between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2000, victim participation under Rule 113 of the KSC Rules, the institutional structure (Basic Court Chamber, Court of Appeals Chamber, Supreme Court Chamber, Constitutional Court Chamber), 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 (the official KSC website) or legal-tools.org before appearing in any output. Foundational texts (Law No. 05/L-053, Article 162 of the Constitution, Rules of Procedure and Evidence) may be cited from project knowledge when present. Trigger this skill any time KSC, Kosovo Specialist Chambers, KSPO, Specialist Prosecutor, Thaçi tribunal, Veseli, Selimi, Krasniqi, KLA war crimes prosecution, or any KSC case identifier appears in the request.