scsl-rscsl-special-court-for-sierra-leone-jeanne-sulzer
Verification-first methodology for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and its Residual Special Court. Citations are verified against rscsl.org and legal-tools.org. Covers Taylor, the AFRC/CDF/RUF cases, the child-soldier and forced-marriage holdings, the head-of-State immunity decision, and the fixed-term (no life) penalty regime. 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 special-court-for-sierra-leone-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.
# SCSL — Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Residual Special Court (RSCSL) This skill governs every output that touches the Special Court for Sierra Leone and its Residual Special Court. The discipline is simple and the reason for it is concrete: the SCSL produced landmark jurisprudence on the recruitment of child soldiers as a war crime, on forced marriage as a crime against humanity, on the responsibility of a sitting head of State, and on the joint criminal enterprise doctrine in the Sierra Leone armed conflicts. It is also the only modern hybrid tribunal that convicted a former head of State (Charles Taylor, 26 April 2012). Case numbers, document references, and the parallel structure of the three main joint trials (AFRC, CDF, RUF) need to be cited with precision. ## The discipline in one paragraph For any case-specific document — judgment, decision, indictment, filing, OTP submission — verify before citing. "Verify" means `web_fetch` (or equivalent retrieval) to **rscsl.org** (the official Residual Special Court website, which preserves the SCSL legacy) or legal-tools.org in the current conversation. Foundational texts in project knowledge (UN-Sierra Leone Agreement, SCSL
- 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 scsl-rscsl-special-court-for-sierra-leone-jeanne-sulzer skill do?
Verification-first methodology for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and its Residual Special Court. Citations are verified against rscsl.org and legal-tools.org. Covers Taylor, the AFRC/CDF/RUF cases, the child-soldier and forced-marriage holdings, the head-of-State immunity decision, and the fixed-term (no life) penalty regime. 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 special-court-for-sierra-leone-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.