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International Criminal Court Judges Election, 2014
Six judges of the International Criminal Court The eighteen judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are elected for nine-year terms by the member-countries of the court. Candidates must be nationals of those countries and they must "possess the qualifications required in their respe ... were elected during the 13th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court scheduled for 8 to 17 December 2014 in New York. The judges were elected for terms of nine years and took office on 11 March 2015. Background The judges elected at this session replaced those six judges which were elected at the second election of ICC judges in 2006 for a full term of nine years; they will also serve for nine years until 2024. The election was governed by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Its article 36(8)(a) states that " e States Parties shall, in the selection of judges, take into account the need, within the membersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judges Of The International Criminal Court
The eighteen judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are elected for nine-year terms by the member-countries of the court. Candidates must be nationals of those countries and they must "possess the qualifications required in their respective States for appointment to the highest judicial offices". A judge may be disqualified from "any case in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be doubted on any ground", and a judge may be removed from office if found "to have committed serious misconduct or a serious breach of his or her duties" or is unable to exercise his or her functions. The judges are organized into three divisions: the Pre-Trial Division, Trial Division, and Appeals Division. Qualifications, election and terms Judges are elected to the ICC by the Assembly of States Parties, the court's governing body. They serve nine-year terms and are not generally eligible for re-election. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reine Alapini-Gansou
Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou (born 11 August 1956) is a Beninese jurist who is a judge of the International Criminal Court since March 2018. Early life and education Alapini-Gansou was born in Abidjan in Ivory Coast on August 11, 1956. She has a degree in Common Law from the University of Lyon in France and a master's degree in Business Law and Judicial lCareers from the National University of Benin. She also has a joint postgraduate degree from the Universities of Maastricht, Lomé and Bhutan. Career Alapini-Gansou was admitted to the Benin Bar in 1986. She worked for Avocats Sans Frontières Belgium on the project "Justice for all in Rwanda" in 2001. She has taught General Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Abomey-Calavi since 2001 and has authored a number of research papers in human rights and law. She was a member of the Benin Women Lawyers Association and initiated several laws protecting women in Benin. Alapini-Gansou was an intern for the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Perrin De Brichambaut
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (; born 29 October 1948) is a French career judge and diplomat. On 10 December 2014 he was elected a judge to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Until 30 June 2011 he was the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Early life and education Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was born in Rabat, Morocco. He graduated from France's École nationale d'administration in Paris in 1974. Career De Brichambaut joined the Council of State, France's supreme court for judicial review, in 1974. In 1983 and 1984, de Brichambaut was chief of staff to Roland Dumas, then Minister of European Affairs, and after Dumas became Minister of Foreign Affairs, de Brichambaut continued to serve as his chief of staff. In 1986, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked as cultural Counsellor for the French Embassy, returning to Paris in 1988 as Principal Adviser to Defense Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement. He was also advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Natércia Gusmão Pereira
Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial * 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon Terrestrial *Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar *Maria, Quebec, Canada *Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines *María, Spain, in Andalusia *Îles Maria, French Polynesia *María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain *Villa Maria (other) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film Literature * ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs * ''Maria'' (Ukrainian novel), a 1934 novel by the Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk * ''Maria'' (play), a 1935 play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua
Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua is a Congolese lawyer who is currently a judge of the International Criminal Court. He was previously a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.http://www.icty.org/x/file/About/Chambers/judges_bios_en/ALJ_Mindua_Bio_en.pdf Education Mindua studied law and political science in Kinshasa, Nancy-Université, Strasbourg and Geneva. He received his doctorate in international law from the University of Geneva in 1995. Career Mindua served first as a Legal Officer and Chief of the Judicial Proceedings Support Unit at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha from 1996 to 2001. He was also ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Switzerland in Bern and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2001 to 2006. During his tenure in Geneva, Mindua held a number of multilateral posts, including Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Kovács (lawyer)
Péter Kovács (born in 1959, Szeged, Hungary) is a Hungarian professor of international law at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, where he is the head of the Public International Law Department and the Doctoral School. Kovács has been a judge at the Constitutional Court of Hungary since 2005. Previously he served as a diplomat at the Embassy of Hungary in Paris and as the head of the Department for Human Rights and Minority Protection in the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kovács was elected as a judge on the International Criminal Court in the 2014 election of judges by the Assembly of State Parties. Kovács graduated from the Faculty of Law of József Attila University in 1983. After his studies at the European University Centre in Nancy, France, in 1983/84, he received his law degree specialized in community rights. For Kovács' thesis ''Protection of fundamental rights in the community rights system'', 1987, he was awarded the title of “doctor universitatis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Hofmański
Piotr Józef Hofmański (born 6 March 1956) is a Polish jurist and judge who has served as President of the International Criminal Court (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, Polish People's Republic on 6 March 1956. He obtained his master of laws degree from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 1978. He got his doctor of laws degree from the same university in 1981. He was habiltized at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 1990. Council of Europe 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 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Gontšarov
Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People Given name * Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia * Paweł Tuchlin (1946–1987), Polish serial killer *Pavel (film director), an Indian Bengali film director * Surname *Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian *Andrei Pavel (born 1974), Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player *Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian pop singer and dancer also known as Claudia Cream *Elisabeth Pavel (born 1990), Romanian basketball player * Ernst Pavel, Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s *Harry Pavel (born 1951), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian *Marcel Pavel (born 1959), Romanian folk singer *Pavel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zlata Đurđević
Zlata () is a female given name of South Slavic origin meaning "golden". It is common amongst all South Slavic countries in the Balkans, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia and Serbia. The name is popular in Bosnia because it is considered ethnically neutral amongst the three dominant Bosnian ethnicities: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. The name is derived from the South Slavic word ''zlato'' - from the Old Slavic root ''zolto'' (gold). Notable people with the name include: *Zlata Adamovská (born 1959), Czech actress * Zlata Bartl (1920–2008), Bosnian scientist *Zlata Bizova (born 1927), Russian painter *Zlata Filipović (born 1980), Bosnian writer * Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990), Croatian writer *Zlata Ognevich (born 1986), Ukrainian singer and politician * Zlata of Maglen (died 1795), Bulgarian saint * Zlata Petković (1954–2012), Serbian actress *Zlata Petrović (born 1962), Serbian singer *Zlata Razdolina Zlata Razdolina (Rozenfel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Chang-ho
Chung Chang-ho () is a South Korean judge who has been serving judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), serving since 2015. He is the second South Korean to serve in the chambers of the Court, following former president Song Sang-hyun. Education and career Chung was born in 1967 in South Korea and holds a B.A. in Law and an LL.M. in International Law from Seoul National University. He was a court martial judge in the Republic of Korea Air Force for three years from 1993 to 1996. Chung also served eight years as a district court judge and six years as a high court judge before his mandate at the ECCC. He was a research scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2001 and at the University of Hong Kong in 2005. Chung also served as a legal advisor and the South Korean delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at the South Korean embassy in Vienna, Austria, between 2008 and 2009. Chung then served as a United Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant
Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant (born 15 July 1966) is a Brazilian jurist and International law scholar. He serves as judge of the International Court of Justice since 4 November 2022. He is also a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the founder of the International Law Center (CEDIN), in Belo Horizonte. He was elected to the ICJ in the 2022 election following the death of Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade. Brant had previously ran unsuccessfully for the International Criminal Court judges election, 2014. Education Brant graduated from the School of Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais, in 1991. In the same year, he obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Human Rights at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. In 1993, he obtained a Master's Dregree in International Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, with the thesis "The Right to Development as a Human Right". From 1996 to 2000, Brant studied at Université Paris X - Nanterr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
