[Maria Elander is an associate professor at La Trobe University Law School. Rachel Hughes is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne.] In what way can a property that was once the site of an atrocity and now of memorialisation be outstanding? An outstanding book might be exceptionally good, an outstanding performance suggests one that stands out from the rest, while...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was created by the Cambodian government in partnership with the United Nations. Its purpose was to prosecute crimes under international and Cambodian law committed between 1975 and 1979, when Cambodia was ruled by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), better known as the ‘Khmer Rouge’. On 22 September 2022, the ECCC’s...
[Rachel Hughes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her recent Australian Research Council fellowship examined ECCC legacy and reparation.] The Lead Co-Lawyers representing victims at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, have recently submitted a filing on the question of the reclassification of case file documents. The reclassification...