Piotr Józef Hofmański (born 6 March 1956) is a Polish jurist and judge who has served as President of the
International Criminal Court
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(ICC) since 2021. He has been a judge of the ICC since 2015. His election into the Presidency of the ICC is for a three-year term. Prior to his tenure as a judge of the ICC, Hofmański was a legal expert and advisor at the Council of Europe.
Early life and education
Piotr Hofmański was born in
Poznań
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,
Polish People's Republic
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on 6 March 1956. He obtained his master of laws degree from the
In 2001–2002 he was working as an expert at the Council of Europe in the ''Reflection Group on developments in international cooperation in criminal matters'' and in 2004–2006 in the ''Committee of Experts on Transnational Justice''.
Judge
He began his career as a judge on the bench of the
appellate court
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in Białystok in 1994. In 1996–2015 he was a judge in the Criminal Chamber of the
Supreme Court of Poland
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One of the chambers of the Supreme Court, the Disciplinary Chamber, was suspended by a judgment of the CJ ...
. In 1999 he served as the court's
spokesperson
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Duties and function
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.
In December 2014 he was elected as a judge of the
International Criminal Court
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for the 2015–2024 term. He was the first person from
Poland
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President
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Aleksander Kwaśniewski
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.
Private life
He is fluent in
Polish
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,
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and
German
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. He is married and has three daughters.
Publications
Hofmański authored and co-authored more than 300 publications regarding various aspects of criminal law and procedure, international cooperation in criminal matters and human rights protection. Many of his publications have been written and published in German and/or English.