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LEGAL TRAINING
1995-present
The DC-Cam’s
Legal Training Project aims at educating a focused group of
influential Cambodians about transitional justice and human rights law
so that they will be able to put those ideas into practice as
teachers, writers, lawyers, activists, and policymakers.
The DC-Cam’s Legal Training Project was first implemented in 1995 and
1996 in collaboration with Yale’s Cambodian Genocide Program and the
Schell Centre for International Human Rights. Both years, two
successful courses on international law were provided to law students
by foreign guest lecturers.
In 2003, the DC-Cam received some funding to organise another Legal
Training Project in the following year. Hence, during the summer 2004,
a six weeks legal training course on international humanitarian and
criminal law was attended by 30 participants at the DC-Cam’s office in
Phnom Penh (see
2004
Legal Training).
The DC-Cam received generous
support
to organise
further legal training courses during the year 2005
from the Swedish and Dutch
governments, as well as the U.S. State Department's Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, through USAID. The 2005
Legal Training Project focused on a subject matter highly relevant to
the upcoming Khmer Rouge tribunal’s trials, namely criminal defense.
It involved
three two-week courses at the DC-Cam’s office for selected Cambodian
professionals. Lectures and workshops were provided and facilitated by
international and Cambodian guest lecturers who have been practicing
as defense counsel before domestic courts and/or international/mixed
criminal courts. In addition, the DC-Cam’s legal training team
prepared a Training Manual, which was handed over to the trainees (see
2005 Legal Training).
Click on
Tribunal Response Team
for a description of DC-Cam’s activities to support the
tribunal process. (see
2006 Investigative Police training)
DC-Cam Legal Training, Fall 2010: The Duch Case and International
Criminal Law
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Announcement of
Legal Training in 2010
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Application Form for Fall 2010
Legal Training (October)
Contact:
Dara P. Vanthan
Deputy Director
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