Alphonsus "Alphons" Martinus Maria Orie (born 23 November 1947) is a Dutch jurist specialising in

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and a former

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at the

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(ICTY), who presided over many Trial Chamber cases at the ICTY.

Biography

Alphons Orie was born in

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and studied law and graduated from

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

in 1971. From 1971 to 1980, he worked there in the Faculty of Law as researcher and lecturer for criminal law. He was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague in 1980. Orie specialised in

International Criminal Law International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetrat ...

cases (extraterritorial jurisdiction, extradition, judicial cooperation, transfer of prisoners) and cases before the

Supreme Court of the Netherlands The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ( or simply ''Hoge Raad''), officially the High Council of the Netherlands, is the final court of appeal in civil, criminal and tax cases in the Netherlands, including Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Aruba. Th ...

. He was a member of the Tadić defence team before the ICTY in 1995–1997. He served in various functions at his Bar and at the National Bar of the Netherlands. In 1997, he was appointed Judge in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, where he served until 2001. He served during those years also as a crown-appointed member of the disciplinary Court of Appeal for the Dutch Bar. In 2001, he was elected Judge at the ICTY. He is Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber I. He further presided over the Referral Bench, referring cases back to the former Yugoslavia. In 2011, he was elected Judge at the Roster of Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. He is also on the Disciplinary Appeals Board of the

Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), also referred to as the Lebanon Tribunal or the Hariri Tribunal, was a tribunal of international character that was active between 2009 and 2023. It applied Lebanese criminal law under the authority of ...

. Notable cases over which Orie presided include

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and

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and, currently,

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and

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