Patrick Lipton Robinson (born 29 January 1944 in

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) is a Jamaican member of the

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for the term commencing February 2015. Prior to this he was formerly the President of the

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try ...

, a position he held between 2008 and 2011 during which time his ''Chef de Cabinet'' was Gabrielle Louise McIntyre. He was first elected to the Tribunal in 1998 and has been re-elected twice since. In 2004, he presided over the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former Yugoslav president. He was educated at

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(BA, 1964), the

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(LLB, 1968) and King's College London (LLM, 1972). He is the recipient of the national award, Order of Jamaica, awarded by the government of Jamaica for services to International Law and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the

, Jamaica, and the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. He is the recipient of the award of Honorary Membership of the

American Society of International Law The American Society of International Law (ASIL), founded in 1906, was chartered by the United States Congress in 1950 to foster the study of international law, and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the ba ...

for 2011. He is the author of the book ''Jamaican Athletics – A Model for 2012 and the World''. He is a member of the

Crimes Against Humanity Initiative The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative is a rule of law research and advocacy project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. Started in 2008 by Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, the Initiative has as its goals the study of the need for a comp ...

Advisory Council, a project of the

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at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

Other positions held

*1986: Chairman, United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations *1988–1995: Commissioner,

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages Spanish, French, and Portuguese CIDH, ''Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos'', ''Commission Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme'' ...

*1991–1996: Member,

International Law Commission The International Law Commission (ILC) is a body of experts responsible for helping develop and codify international law. It is composed of 34 individuals recognized for their expertise and qualifications in international law, who are elected by t ...

*Since 1996: Member,

International Bioethics Committee The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO is a body composed of 36 independent experts from all regions and different disciplines (mainly medicine, genetics, law, and philosophy) that follows progress in the life sciences and its appli ...

*1995–1996: Foreign member, Haiti Truth and Justice Commission *1998–2015: Judge,

*2008–2011: President,

*Since 2015: Judge,

References

External links

Biography
- ICTY page

''Jamaican Athletics - A Model for 2012 and the World'' *
Lecture
by Patrick Lipton Robinson entitled ''Fairness and Efficiency in the Proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia'' in th

1944 births Living people Alumni of University of London Worldwide Alumni of the University of London University of the West Indies alumni Alumni of King's College London Members of the Middle Temple 21st-century Jamaican judges Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia International Law Commission officials Members of the Order of Jamaica Jamaican judges of United Nations courts and tribunals International Court of Justice judges 20th-century Jamaican judges {{Caribbean-law-bio-stub