ABSTRACT

Given the expense and scale of the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), it is unlikely that further international tribunals will be created, especially in light of the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). However, the ICC will not be able to address all possible cases, both because it will not have sufficient resources and because it may not have temporal or territorial jurisdiction over all cases of interest. Hybrid tribunals, a recent development in international attempts to seek accountability for serious crimes, are an alternative. These are known as “hybrid”, “mixed” or “internationalized” tribunals because they involve both domestic and external judges, as well as a mixture of domestic and international law, and are most often located in the country where the conflict took place.