Last week Friday, Sir Keir Starmer KC assumed office as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the decisive victory of his Labour Party in the UK's general election. As the "KC" after his name indicates he is an accomplished lawyer. He had a very successful career as an English barrister, and as Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales, before entering into politics. I think it is fairly well known that Sir Keir appeared as counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the merits phase of the Croatia Genocide Convention Case. He argued before the Court over several days in March 2014 and you can view his initial appearance in that case here. In a previous trivia post (and in the comments thereto), it was noted that we have had a case of an ICJ judge subsequently becoming Prime Minister (Judge Al Khasawneh of Jordan), and of a Prime Minister subsequently becoming Judge ad hoc at the ICJ ( Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC of…
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Trivia: International Lawyers in Senior State Positions
Many thanks to those who suggested answers to my trivia question of earlier this week. I have put my responses as a comment to that post. I now have another question which relates to international lawyers who have held the highest offices of state. There are quite a number of…
Trivia: Judges on Multiple International Tribunals
In previous posts (here and here) of some years ago, I noted the increasing number of judges elected to the International Court of Justice who had prior experience on another international tribunal. With the proliferation of international tribunals over the past couple of decades, this phenomenon of judges being elected to one international tribunal…
ICJ Elections 2017: UN General Assembly and Security Council Elect Four Judges to the ICJ But fail to Agree on a Fifth, yet again! + Trivia Question
On Thursday (Nov. 9), the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council elected four judges to the International Court of Justice (see UN Press Releases here and here). Judges Ronny Abraham (France), the incumbent President; Abdulqawi Yusuf (Somalia), the incumbent Vice-President; and Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (Brazil) were all re-elected. Nawaf Salam who…
Trivia: International Organizations Headquartered in Non-Member States
Michael Waibel’s post of yesterday highlighted one of the significant issues that will need to be sorted out in the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU. Another issue, though of less significance, that will need to be resolved is the (re)location of a couple of EU agencies that currently have their headquarters in London:…
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