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Research tool for international criminal justice

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Jeanne Sulzer

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We've just released a research tool for international criminal justice. It is free and open to everyone.

International tribunals — the ICC, the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Nuremberg, Tokyo, and a dozen others from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers to the JEP in Colombia — publish their judgments and archives. Everything is public but finding your way through them is sometimes difficult and some websites are genuinely hard to access.

So we built, for 16 jurisdictions, research guides designed to be used with an AI assistant. The rule behind them is simple: the assistant is not allowed to cite a judgment from memory. For every reference, it must locate the official document in the tribunal's public archives. If it can't find it, it says so.

This is a project of Impact Litigation Lab, a French non-profit association (loi 1901) and the pro bono lab of my law practice, created to help make international human rights law and international criminal justice effective for victims, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, practitioners, researchers.

Everything is freely available
For the more technical readers: the whole suite also comes as a ready-made connector (an "MCP server") that plugs it directly into AI assistants & everything is on GitHub:
📂 https://github.com/jeannesulzer/international-criminal-tribunals-skills
📚 The guides, ready to use, on Lawve AI ai : https://lawve.ai

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Jeanne Sulzer

I have watched contemporary international criminal justice take shape — from the inside, since 1998 (only!) I worked, as a young professional, on the creation of the ICC, representing the Burundi delegation at the Rome Diplomatic Conference. I then spent nearly a decade at FIDH as Head of International Justice, building their programme from the ground up — working on universal jurisdiction as the Pinochet arrest reshaped what national courts could do, filing victims participation before the ICC and national jurisdictions across Africa and beyond, and leading fact-finding missions including on sexual violence in Syria. Since then, I have worked as Senior Law & Policy Officer at Amnesty International France, legal advisor on reparations in the Hissène Habré case before the African Extraordinary Chambers, consultant with Open Society Foundations on counter-terrorism and human rights, and technical consultant with UNOCT on victims' rightsof terrorism and sexual violence in conflict. I founded Impact Litigation in 2020. Alongside my practice, I research and write on international criminal justice, reparations, and the structural limits of victims' rights regimes — a perspective shaped by over twenty years in the field. I teach International Criminal Law, Victims' Rights and Terrorism at Sciences Po Paris and Paris II Panthéon-Assas. I am Head of the International Justice commission at Amnesty International France, member of the Scientific Council of the Musée Memorial du terrorism, of Sciences Po Law Clinic, and board member of Syrians for Truth and Justice. I speak and give seminars on international criminal justice, universal jurisdiction, terrorism, and victims' rights — for universities, NGOs, bar associations and institutions in France and internationally. Available in French and English.

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