His article on “Revision of Judgment: International Criminal Courts and Tribunals” discusses the human right of convicted persons to request the revision of their judgment if evidence of new facts are discovered.
In his entry in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, Dr Galand, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, comparatively and critically assesses how the International Criminal Court, and other international criminal tribunals, including: the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and its Residual Mechanism, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the East Timor Special Panels, Iraqi Special Tribunal, Kosovo Specialist Chambers, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia and the Special Criminal Court for the Central African Republic, implement the right of convicted persons to request the revision of their judgment if evidence of new facts are discovered.
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About the author
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Alexandre Skander Galand, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Fundamental Rights (2019 - 2022)