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Term Time Clinic

Term Time Clinic is a program which students can take while pursuing academic courses at their respective Universities. The Clinic is divided into two components: Academic work and field excursions.

  1. Academic work:
    • Ten hour pre-Clinic orientation into (a) history of the Khmer Rouge Regime (b) ECCC, its hybrid structure as compared to that of other courts, history and work (c) substantive and procedural laws peculiar to Civil Party Representation:
    • Supervised research on international criminal law issues pertinent to the ECCC and its ongoing trials such as jurisdiction, immunity, amnesty, criminal procedure, victims’ participation, reparations and compliance with international human rights standards and/or Cambodian national laws.
  2. Field work (Transitional Justice Weekend) is a proposed 4 days, 3 nights immersion program, it includes:
    •  Mandatory visit to the (i) S-21 Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, (ii) Choeung Ek Killing Fields, and (iii) the ECCC.
    • Sharing and exchange with local counterparts, which include meetings with (i) Documentation Center of Cambodia, (ii) academic exchange with the Royal University of Law and Economics law students on a topic of interests, (iii) ECCC personnel, (iv) German embassy.

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