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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.
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 ...
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]
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.
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.
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 ...
Shi was elected to the ICJ on 6 February 1994, and became the president on 6 February 2003 at the age of 77. It was the first time that a Chinese judge became president of the ICJ. The foreign minister of the People's Republic of China Tang Jiaxuan sent his personal warm congratulations to Shi. [4]
Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo "Bola" Ajibola, SAN, KBE, CFR (22 March 1934 – 8 April 2023) was a Nigerian jurist, who was the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 and a judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994. [1] He was president of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985.