Dalveer Bhandari

Dalveer Bhandari

Dalveer Bhandari (born  October 1, 1947 in Jodhpur ) is an Indian lawyer . He served as a judge at the Supreme Court of India from 2005 to 2012 and has served as a judge at the International Court of Justice since 2012 .

Life

Dalveer Bhandari was born in Jodhpur in 1947 and completed his legal training at Jodhpur University in his home country and at Northwestern University , where he obtained a Master of Laws degree . He then worked as a lawyer in Chicago before returning to India in 1973, where he practiced as a lawyer first at the Rajasthan High Court and from 1977 at the Indian Supreme Court . From 1991 he served as a judge at the Delhi High Court . After 13 years in that capacity, he was appointed presiding judge of the Bombay High Court in July 2004 . In October 2005, he moved to the Supreme Court of India as a judge.

In April 2012, he was elected judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague by the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations . His election took place outside of the regular judges' elections as a by-election, as the previous incumbent Aun Schaukat al-Chasauneh had withdrawn from the ICJ due to his appointment as prime minister of his home country Jordan . Dalveer Bhandari was sworn in on June 19, 2012, and his term of office initially ran until the regular end of his predecessor's term of office in February 2018. In November 2017, he was re-elected for a further nine-year term until 2027.

Awards

Dalveer Bhandari received an honorary doctorate from Tumkur University in 2010 and Padma Bhushan in 2014 . Northwestern University Law School named him one of their 16 Most Famous and Outstanding Graduates in 2009, celebrating its 150th anniversary. He was made an honorary member of the Indian Society for International Law.

literature

• Justice Dalveer Bhandari. In: The Supreme Court of India: Annual Report 2008–2009. Thomson Press, New Delhi 2009, p. 18

Web links

• International Court of Justice - Judge Dalveer Bhandari biography on the ICJ website (English, with picture)
• United Nations General Assembly and Security Council elect Mr. Dalveer Bhandari as a Member of the Court Press release 2012/16 of the International Court of Justice of April 27, 2012 on the occasion of the election of Dalveer Bhandari (with biographical information) ( PDF file , approx. 919 kB ; English)