Chung Chang-ho () is a South Korean judge who has been serving judge at the

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(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

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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

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in 2001 and at the

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in 2005. Chung also served as a legal advisor and the South Korean delegate to the

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(UNCITRAL) at the South Korean embassy in Vienna, Austria, between 2008 and 2009. Chung then served as a United Nations International Judge in the

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(ECCC) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 2011 to 2015. There, he was a member of the Rules and Procedure Committee and the Judicial Administration Committee. Chung was elected to the International Criminal Court from the Asian Group of States, list A, for a term of nine years beginning 11 March 2015 and ending on the same day in 2024. He was assigned to the Pre-Trial Division. In 2021, he was the presiding judge in the proceedings that resulted in Congolese militia leader

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being sentenced to pay child soldiers and other victims a total of $30 million compensation, the Court's highest ever reparation order.Stephanie van den Berg (March 8, 2021)
War crimes court orders record $30 million compensation for Congo victims
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Publications

Chung has published extensively, the most recent of which was for the

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, echoing his long-standing opinion that the Asia-Pacific should move to create a regional court of human rights.

Situations and cases

Source:

Current

*''The Prosecutor v. Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti'' *''The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Muhammad Harun ("Ahmad Harun") and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman ("Ali Kushayb")'' *''The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir'' *''The Prosecutor v. Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein'' *''The Prosecutor v. Walter Osapiri Barasa'' *''The Prosecutor v. Paul Gicheru and Philip Kipkoech Bett'' *''The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda''

Past

*''The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen'' *''The Prosecutor v. Sylvestre Mudacumura''

References

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