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The first and second lists are of all the permanent judges of the International Court of Justice, the main judicial organ of the United Nations, first chronologically and then by seat. The third list is a list of judges appointed ad hoc by a party to a proceeding before the Court pursuant to Article 31 of the Statute of the International Court ...
Joan E. Donoghue (born December 12, 1956) is an American lawyer, international legal scholar, former U.S. State Department official, and former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was first elected to the court in 2010, re-elected in 2014, and elected by the ICJ judges to be president of the ICJ in 2021.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
Karim Ahmad Khan was born in Edinburgh on 30 March 1970, [9] [10] the son of a British nurse [11] and Pakistani dermatologist. [12] His father was born in Mardān. [12] He has a sister and two brothers, [12] one of whom is former Conservative Party MP and convicted sex offender Imran Ahmad Khan. [13]
Dalveer Bhandari's father, Mahaveer Chand Bhandari, and grandfather, B.C. Bhandari, were members of the Rajasthan bar. [1] [2] He acquired degrees in the humanities and law from Jodhpur University and practised in the Rajasthan High Court from 1968 to 1970.
The Court initially consisted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the League of Nations to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who would put them before the Council and Assembly for election. The Council and Assembly were to bear in mind that the elected panel of judges was to represent every major ...
She has been a judge on the court since March 2012. She is the first African woman to sit on the ICJ. [2] [3] Before being elected to the ICJ, Sebutinde was a judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She was appointed to that position in 2007. On 6 February 2024, Julia Sebutinde was elected Vice-President of the International Court of ...
Rosalyn C. Higgins, Baroness Higgins, GBE, KC (born 2 June 1937) [1] is a British former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was the first female judge elected to the ICJ, and was elected to a three-year term as its president in 2006.