Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko (born 27 November 1941) is a Ugandan judge and legal scholar. He was a member of the Appeals Chamber of the

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(ICC) from 2008 to 2012, and currently serves as a judge on 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 ...

Early life and education

Nsereko comes from a family of nine children. His father Obadiah Busulwa was a former teacher and lay preacher in the

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, until he became a

Seventh-day Adventist The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbat ...

in 1950. Nsereko was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1960, during secondary school. Nsereko received his

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from the

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, an MCJ from

Howard University School of Law Howard University School of Law (Howard Law or HUSL) is the law school of Howard University, a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is one of the oldest law schools in the country and the old ...

, and an

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and JSD from

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Legal career

Nsereko was nominated and elected to the ICC in 2007. In 2009, he presided over an appeal of a criminal case against

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. In 2012, he was part of the majority panel in an ICC case regarding the

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. He became a judge of the

in March 2012. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on nominations of judges to the ICC. Nsereko is a member of the

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Advisory Council, a project of the

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in St. Louis to establish the world’s first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

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Curriculum vitae
1941 births Living people International Criminal Court judges The Hague Academy of International Law people Academic staff of the University of Botswana Ugandan judges of international courts and tribunals Special Tribunal for Lebanon judges Ugandan Seventh-day Adventists University of East Africa alumni New York University School of Law alumni Howard University School of Law alumni {{Uganda-law-bio-stub