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2023 International Criminal Court Judges Election
Six judges of the International Criminal Court were elected during the 22nd session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court held from 4 to 14 December 2023 in New York. The judges were elected for terms of nine years and took office on 11 March 2024. Background The judges elected at this session replaced six judges who had been elected in 2014 for full nine-year terms. The newly elected judges will serve for nine years until 2033. 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 membership of the Court, for: * (i) The representation of the principal legal systems of the world; * (ii) Equitable geographical representation; and * (iii) A fair representation of female and male judges." Furthermore, article 36(3)(b) and 36(5) provide for two lists: * List A contains those ju ... [...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 States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, member-countries of the court. Candidates must be nationality, 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 International Criminal Court#Assembly, Assembly of States Parties, the court's governing body. They serve nine-year terms a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly Prost
Kimberly Prost (born June 4, 1958) is a Canadian jurist currently serving as a judge of the International Criminal Court, assigned to the Trial Division. She was elected to a nine-year term on December 5, 2017, was sworn in on March 9, 2018, and assumed full-time duty on June 11, 2018. Biography Prost grew up in the Fort Rouge neighbourhood of Winnipeg; her mother was a homemaker and her father a brewery worker and hotel owner. Prost attended high school in Winnipeg at St. Mary's Academy. Prost graduated as a gold medalist from the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. She joined the Canadian Department of Justice in 1982 and worked for five years at the Winnipeg regional office as a federal prosecutor. In 1987, she joined the Department of Justice’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Unit in Ottawa, and worked as head of the Baltic team on possible prosecutions for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1990, she took a position within the Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Court Judges
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Keebong Paek
Keebong Paek (; born 19 December 1964) is a South Korean jurist who has been serving as a judge of the International Criminal Court since March 2024. Notes References 1964 births Living people International Criminal Court judges South Korean judges of international courts and tribunals 21st-century South Korean judges {{SouthKorea-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vui Clarence Nelson
Vui Clarence Joseph Nelson (born 22 December 1955) is a Samoan judge. He sits on the Supreme Court of Samoa, and was the first Pacific Islands judge appointed to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Nelson was born in Apia, Samoa, and educated at St. Joseph's College in Samoa and Timaru Boys' High School in New Zealand. He studied law at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating in 1977. He returned to Samoa in 1979, where he worked for the Office of the Attorney General and then in private practice. In 2000 he was appointed to the District Court of Samoa, becoming Senior District Court Judge in 2001. In 2006 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Samoa. As a supreme court judge he decided the case of ''Police v Vailopa'' 009 which set requirements for police interviews of child suspects. He also advocated for the creation of a sex offender's registry in Samoa, resulting eventually in the passage of the Sex Offenders Registration Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iulia Motoc
Iulia Antoanella Motoc (born 20 August 1967) is a Romanian judge and international law expert, currently a judge of the International Criminal Court. Before beginning her service at the court, she was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, a professor at the University of Bucharest and a judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania. Motoc was United Nations special rapporteur, UN Special Rapporteur for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and she chaired a number of international experts bodies and was Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Committee. On 1 October 2013, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Motoc a judge of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to Romania. She received an absolute majority of votes cast by parliamentarians. Her nine-year term of office began on 18 December 2013. In August 2021, she was elected as a member of the Institut de Droit International. On 28 March 2023, following a selection process, she was chose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska (born 11 May 1963) is a Macedonian judge born in Strumica, North Macedonia. She was the judge of the European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court hears applications alleging that a co ... in respect of North-Macedonia from 2008 to 2017. References 1963 births Living people People from Strumica Macedonian judges Judges of the European Court of Human Rights Women judges Macedonian judges of international courts and tribunals {{law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beti Hohler
Beti Hohler (born 25 June 1981) is a Slovenian judge serving on the International Criminal Court (ICC) since March 2024. In June 2025, She was among the four ICC judges sanctioned by the Trump administration. Early life and education Hohler was born on 25 June 1981. Legal career Hohler started her career as a lawyer in Ljubljana. From 2011 to 2015, she worked as a legal officer to international judges at the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. She then worked as a trial lawyer in the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor until becoming a judge. Judge of the International Criminal Court Hohler was elected as a judge of the ICC in December 2023 and began her term in March 2024. She is the first Slovenian to hold this position. On 25 October 2024, Hohler was appointed to a three-judge panel responsible for reviewing requests for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif in relation to alleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Guillou
Nicolas Guillou (born 13 August 1975 ) is a French jurist who has served as a judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the International Criminal Court. In the former role he issued the arrest warrant for Salih Mustafa Salih Mustafa also known by the nickname "Cali", (born 1 January 1972) is a former Kosovo Albanian war commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from the Guerilla BIA unit, which operated in the region of Gollak, Zllash during the Kosovo .... References Judges of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers International Criminal Court judges 1975 births Living people French judges of international courts and tribunals 21st-century French judges {{France-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erdenebalsuren Damdin
Erdenebalsuren Damdin (born 7 August 1967) is a Mongolian judge specialising in criminal law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law. On 11 March 2024 he started a nine-year term as a judge of the International Criminal Court. Education Damdin obtained his first degree in law and a Master of Laws at Irkutsk State University. Criminal lawyer Starting in the 1990s, Damdin was a defence lawyer, a prosecutor, and a judge in criminal law, representing the accused, victims and witnesses. As a prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted cases of rape, torture, extrajudicial execution, sexual violence, human trafficking, abductions and terrorism. Damdin was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mongolia from 2012 or 2013 through to 2024. Among his cases as a justice of the Supreme Court, were cases of reparations for victims of genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1937–1939 Stalinist repressions in Mongolia. Damdin contributed to legal reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |