Song Sang-hyun (; born 21 December 1941) is a South Korean lawyer and former

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of the

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(ICC).

Biography

Song attended Seoul National University Law School, graduating with an

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in 1963.snusong.net
Profile: Sang-Hyun Song
. Accessed 11 March 2009. He attended

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as a

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, then obtained a Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies from the

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and a

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from

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. He has lectured

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and

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Law School. In February 2003 he was elected to the first-ever bench of ICC judges, for a three-year term. He took office on 11 March 2003 and was assigned to the Appeals Division. He was re-elected to the court in 2006, for a term of nine years.UN News Centre (26 January 2006)
''At UN, 6 judges elected to the International Criminal Court''
Accessed 11 March 2009. On 11 March 2009, he was elected

of the court.International Criminal Court (11 March 2009)
''Judge Song (Republic of Korea) elected President of the International Criminal Court; Judges Diarra (Mali) and Kaul (Germany) elected First and Second Vice-Presidents respectively''
. Accessed 11 March 2009. He has been awarded Cornell University's Distinguished Alumni Medal, the Korean Federal Bar Association's Legal Culture Award, and the National Decoration of Moran Order from the Korean Government.

Lectures

in th

* ttp://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Song.html ''The International Criminal Court: Maintaining Judicial Independence in a Political World''in th
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

in th

References

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