icty-ictr-irmct-jeanne-sulzer
Verification-first methodology for the ICTY, the ICTR and the Residual Mechanism (IRMCT). Citations are verified against irmct.org, the Case Law and Unified Court Records databases, and legal-tools.org. Handles the IT/ICTR to MICT case-number transition (Karadžić, Mladić) and the protective-measures rule. Research aid, not legal advice. Part of the open-source \"Skills for International Justice\" library - methodology: github.com/jeannesulzer/international-criminal-tribunals-skills
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill icty-ictr-irmct-jeanne-sulzer --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ICTY / ICTR / IRMCT — the ad hoc tribunals and the Mechanism This skill governs every output that touches the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. The discipline is simple and the reason for it is concrete: these tribunals produced the foundational jurisprudence of modern international criminal law, their case numbers and document references are exact, and a fabricated citation in this field misrepresents the holdings on which the entire field rests — and on which victims of the Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides, among others, obtained justice. ## The discipline in one paragraph For any case-specific document — judgment, decision, indictment, appeal judgment, sentencing judgment, filing, OTP submission — verify before citing. "Verify" means `web_fetch` (or equivalent retrieval) to irmct.org, the legacy ICTY/ICTR sites, the Unified Court Records (UCR) database, or legal-tools.org in the current conversation. Foundational instruments (the ICTY Statute, the ICTR Statute, the IRMCT Statute, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of each) may be cited from
- The discipline in one paragraph
- Verification is gradient, not binary
- Standard workflow
- Foundational texts (cite from project knowledge when present)
- The institutional architecture (get this right)
- Source hierarchy
- Citation format
- Audit mode depends on document type
- Substantive doctrine — pointers
- Sensitive contexts
- What this skill is not
- Reference files
What does the icty-ictr-irmct-jeanne-sulzer skill do?
Verification-first methodology for the ICTY, the ICTR and the Residual Mechanism (IRMCT). Citations are verified against irmct.org, the Case Law and Unified Court Records databases, and legal-tools.org. Handles the IT/ICTR to MICT case-number transition (Karadžić, Mladić) and the protective-measures rule. Research aid, not legal advice. Part of the open-source \"Skills for International Justice\" library - methodology: github.com/jeannesulzer/international-criminal-tribunals-skills
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill icty-ictr-irmct-jeanne-sulzer --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.