special-panels-timor-leste-jeanne-sulzer
Verification-first methodology for the Special Panels for Serious Crimes of the Dili District Court (UNTAET, 2000–2006). Citations are verified against JSMP, the UN archives and legal-tools.org. Covers the Los Palos case, the Serious Crimes Unit caseload (391 indicted; about 88 tried) and the SPSC-vs-Jakarta distinction. 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-panels-timor-leste-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.
# Special Panels for Serious Crimes — Dili District Court, Timor-Leste This skill governs every output that touches the Special Panels for Serious Crimes of the Dili District Court (SPSC), also referred to as the **East Timor Tribunal**. The discipline is simple and the reason for it is concrete: the SPSC was the **first hybrid criminal jurisdiction created internally by the United Nations through a transitional administration**, prosecuting serious crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999) — and particularly during the post-referendum violence of August-October 1999 in which approximately 1,400 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced. Its jurisprudence is foundational for understanding internationalised justice in post-conflict transition. ## The discipline in one paragraph For any case-specific document — judgment, decision, indictment, filing — verify before citing. "Verify" means `web_fetch` (or equivalent retrieval) to **Tier 1 sources** (JSMP — Judicial System Monitoring Programme; UC Berkeley Human Rights Center digital archive of SPSC records; UN UNTAET archives; legal-tools.org) in the current conversation. Foundational
- 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
- Substantive doctrine — pointers
- Sensitive contexts
- What this skill is not
- Reference files
What does the special-panels-timor-leste-jeanne-sulzer skill do?
Verification-first methodology for the Special Panels for Serious Crimes of the Dili District Court (UNTAET, 2000–2006). Citations are verified against JSMP, the UN archives and legal-tools.org. Covers the Los Palos case, the Serious Crimes Unit caseload (391 indicted; about 88 tried) and the SPSC-vs-Jakarta distinction. 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-panels-timor-leste-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.