In a previous post, I asked: Which judges of the ICJ had served as ad hoc judges at the ICJ prior to their election to the ICJ? Wim Muller was very quick off the mark in noting that on the ICJ current bench, Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor (Mexico) was an ad hoc judge in the Avena case (Mexico v. USA) before being elected to the Court. Thanks to Martin Cabrera for also noting that Judge Antônio Cançado Trindade was also an ad hoc judge in the Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) case before his election to the Court. If one includes Gaja (who joins in February), five of the Judges on the current bench had previously served as ad hoc judges. Apart from Gaja, Antônio Cançado Trindade and Sepúlveda-Amor, the other two are: -Judge Mohamed Benouna [Frontier Dispute (Benin/Niger]; and Judge Yusuf in the Certain Questions of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Djibouti v. France) What is interesting is that by my reckoning, apart from these 5 current judges, there had previously only been seven other judges who had…
EJIL Trivia
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More International Law Trivia
Following my posts (here and here) about elections to the International Court of Justice of judges who had previously been on another international tribunal, I have another question for readers. Giorgio Gaja who was elected…
Prior International Judicial Experience and Election to the ICJ – The Answers
In my post of yesterday I tried to come up with a bit of international law trivia. I asked readers to come with names of ICJ Judges who had been on international tribunals prior to their election to the ICJ. You can see the answers readers came up…
Prior International Judicial Experience and Election to the ICJ
In my previous post on the election of Julia Sebutinde I noted that she is currently a judge at the Special Court of Sierra Leone. This got me thinking about whether there were other judges elected to the ICJ having previously served on another international tribunal. It is not uncommon for persons who have served as senior…
Who is Party to the Geneva Convention but not a Member of the UN?
Last week (Aug 12) was the 61st anniversary of the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the protection of victims of armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions are the most widely ratified treaties with 194 parties to each of the four conventions. The next most widely ratified treaty is the Convention on the Rights of…
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