Rupert Skilbeck

Rupert Skilbeck

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Rupert Skilbeck is the Litigation Director at Open Society Justice Initiative, based in the New York Office. He is a barrister at the Bar of England and Wales, having practiced in the field of criminal law, human rights law and international criminal law. In June 2006 he was appointed by the United Nations as the Principal Defender of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Prior to that, he worked as the Director of Odsjek Krivicne Odbrane (OKO), the criminal defense section of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, and also as the defense advisor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown. He has lectured on human rights law and international criminal law in Eastern Europe and around the world.