# Authoritative sources — KSC

## Tier 1 — primary, authoritative

### scp-ks.org — the official KSC website

The principal authoritative source. The site is **actively maintained** (the KSC is operating). Key sections:
- **Documents**: `https://scp-ks.org/en/documents` — the Law on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office (Law 05/L-053), the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the Constitution of Kosovo, the Host State Agreement
- **Cases**: `https://scp-ks.org/en/cases` — each case file with all public filings, indictments, decisions, judgments
- **Court Records**: searchable by case number, filing number, party
- **Hearings**: livestream and recordings of public hearings (45-minute delay)

**Languages**: English, Albanian, Serbian (the three official languages of the KSC).

### legal-tools.org — ICC Legal Tools Database

Mirrors KSC principal decisions. Useful for stable PDFs and permanent IDs. Navigate via "Other International(ised) Criminal Jurisdictions" > "Kosovo Specialist Chambers".

### Constitution of Kosovo

Article 162 (Amendment 24, 2015) — the constitutional basis for the KSC. Available via the Kosovo Constitutional Court website and via scp-ks.org.

### Council of Europe

The Marty Report (Doc. 12462, "Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo", 7 January 2011) and PACE Resolution 1782 (2011) endorsing the Report. Available on the Council of Europe website (`assembly.coe.int/`).

## Tier 2 — secondary (must be labelled when used)

### Academic commentary

- **Michael G. Karnavas** — extensive blog series on KSC procedure and the Statute (defence-side perspective; *michaelgkarnavas.net/blog*). Authoritative for procedural detail.
- **Erin Pobjie**, **Sara De Vido**, **Carsten Stahn** and others — academic articles on KSC establishment and jurisdiction
- **Just Security** — KSC analyses (Lattanzi, Mariniello, others)
- **EJIL:Talk!** — KSC analyses including critical perspectives
- **Voelkerrechtsblog** — Otto Lagodny and others on KSC structure
- **Journal of International Criminal Justice** — articles on the KSC's institutional novelty

### Trial monitoring and NGOs

- **Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)** — extensive Albanian-language and English coverage; the principal trial-monitoring source for KSC proceedings
- **Humanitarian Law Center (HLC)** — Belgrade-based, complementary monitoring with attention to victim perspective
- **KSC Watch** — independent monitoring blog
- **Kosovo 2.0** — Kosovo-side journalism

### Journalism

- **Balkan Insight** (English, regional coverage)
- **JusticeInfo.net** — trial reporting
- **Koha Ditore**, **Klan Kosova** (Albanian-language Kosovo press)

## Never authoritative

Wikipedia, Grokipedia, social media, AI summaries, blogs (unless from a serious scholar).

## A note on languages

The KSC operates in **English, Albanian, and Serbian**. All major judgments and decisions are published in all three. The **English version is conventionally authoritative for international scholarship**, but where original testimony was in Albanian or Serbian, the original-language version may matter for interpretation. The Law 05/L-053 and the Constitution Article 162 exist in Albanian and Serbian as original languages; English versions are official translations.