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Reconciling Indigenous peoples with the judicial process: An examination of the recent genocide and sexual slavery trials in Guatemala and their integration of Mayan culture and customs[Record]

  • Elisabeth Madeleine Patterson

A graduate in political science, civil law and common law of McGill University, Elisabeth Patterson is a lawyer, practicing commercial law as well as law relating to Indigenous peoples, governance and the protection of culture. Since 2010, she is a partner at Dionne Schulze law firm in Montreal, Canada. She is a volunteer with Lawyers without Borders Canada (LWBC) and was asked by the organization to witness the first week of the Rios Montt trial (March 19-23, 2013, the trial lasting until May 10) and the last week of the Sepur Zarco trial (February 24-26, 2016, and March 2, the trial taking place February 1st to 26 and March 2nd). She would like to thank Eloi Courchesne, Pierre Rousseau and Charlotte Chicoine-Wilson for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of the article, and Dominic Voisard and Arturo Chub Ical for their invaluable information and references. The information in the article is intended to be accurate as of November 1, 2017.

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