Xue Hanqin (; born 15 September 1955) is a Chinese jurist at the

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. On 29 June 2010, she was elected to fill the vacancy created by

Shi Jiuyong Shi Jiuyong (; 9 October 1926 – 18 January 2022) was a Chinese judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Shi was elected to the ICJ on 6 February 1994, and became President nine years later on 6 February 2003. In 2010, he announced h ...

's resignation on 28 May 2010. She is one of three female judges serving on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and one of only four women elected as members of the Court to date. Xue is the fifth Chinese judge at the ICJ, and the third representing the People's Republic of China (see

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). Having been re-elected to the Court in

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and

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, Xue's term will expire on 5 February 2030. On the sixth of February 2012, Xue was appointed Vice President of the International Court of Justice.

Education

Xue Hanqin received a

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from

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in 1980 and a graduate diploma in

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from

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in 1982. She received a

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and a Doctor of the Science of Law from

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in 1983 and 1995, respectively.

Career

From 1980 to 2003, Xue served in the Department of Treaty and Law of the

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of China, eventually rising to the position of

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. She returned to Columbia Law School in 1991 and obtained a

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in 1995. Xue was appointed the Chinese ambassador to the

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in 2003 and served until 2008. In December 2008, she became the first Chinese ambassador to the

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. She was elected to the International Court of Justice in June 2010. Xue was sworn in as a member of the ICJ on 13 September 2010. She is currently a member of the Curatorium of

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. On 6 February 2018, Xue was appointed Vice President of the International Court of Justice. In November 2020, she was re-elected to the ICJ for another nine-year term. On 16 March 2022, along with Russian judge

Kirill Gevorgian Kirill Goratsiyevich Gevorgian (russian: Кирилл Горациевич Геворгян; born 8 April 1953) is a Russian jurist and diplomat. From 2003 to 2009, he served as Russia's ambassador to the Netherlands. In 2014, he was elected to t ...

, Xue voted against the provisional order that called for the Russian Federation to suspend military operations in Ukraine.

Lectures

''Transboundary Damage in International Law''
in th

* ttp://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Xue.html ''国际法上的跨界损害问题''in th
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

in th

References

External links

International Court of Justice Profile

Female judges bring new perspective to ICJ
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