Boravin Tann

Tann Boravin is a PhD candidate at the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. With a strong foundation in socio-legal research, she has over a decade of academic experience spanning teaching, research design and project management in both Cambodian and international settings. She is also a research fellow at the Cambodia Development Resource Centre. Her research focuses on human rights law, gender equality, development and transitional justice in Cambodia. She has led interdisciplinary research projects and published in peer-reviewed journals including the Australian Feminist Law Journal and the International Journal of Human Rights. Tann has lectured at major Cambodian universities and delivered curriculum development and capacity-building programs across the country. She holds an LLM in international human rights law from Lund University, Sweden and dual BA degrees in law and international studies from Cambodia.

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Witnessing Justice »

Inside Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Trials

Edited by: Christoph Sperfeldt, Rachel Killean, Boravin Tann, Maria Elander, Rachel Hughes, Ratana Ly

Publication date: 2026

Witnessing Justice brings together voices of key actors connected to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), or Khmer Rouge Tribunal, to reflect on its establishment, operation and emerging legacy. The collection covers the ECCC’s operation from its negotiations in 2006 to the conclusion of its judicial proceedings in 2022. It follows the ECCC through its different phases, including its establishment, the build-up to its creation, its investigations, the trials, court management, outreach, victim participation, reparations, collaboration with local civil society, outcomes and more. The volume foregrounds the voices of those who built, made and engaged with the ECCC. Authors capture the plurality of views on the ECCC, including from those most intimately involved in the process. The editors bring their own engagement and expertise to section commentaries, which situate and contextualise authors’ contributions. The ECCC’s legacy will be debated for decades to come. Milestone legal decisions and procedural innovations have advanced Cambodian and international law. The ECCC has also left its mark on Cambodian civil society and public discourse about the Khmer Rouge. Nearly 4,000 survivors participated in its proceedings, more than two dozen collective reparations projects emerged from it, and hundreds of Cambodian staff worked at the ECCC. The end of judicial activity at the ECCC is a key moment for assessing these legacies and gathering the voices of those who shaped this justice process. "Witnessing Justice will ensure that the lessons learned from the creation and working of the court will reverberate: not only in Cambodia, where the struggle for democracy and human rights continues to this day, but worldwide." Gareth Evans

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