Erik Møse

Erik Møse (born October 9, 1950 ) is a Norwegian judge . He was President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 to 2007 . From 2011 to 2018 he was a member of the European Court of Human Rights .

Life

Erik Møse completed a law degree at the University of Oslo and a postgraduate degree in Geneva . He then got a teaching position at Oslo University, later he became a Fellow at the University of Essex in England . He published a lot in the field of human rights and international law and was involved in the drafting of the European Convention on Human Rights and its implementation in Norwegian law.

Until 1986 he was department head in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, then deputy judge, from 1986 to 1993 lawyer at the Supreme Court of Norway in the office of the Reich Attorney (this is comparable to a solicitor of the Anglo-Saxon legal system or in Germany with the representative of the federal interest at the Federal Administrative Court ), from From 1993 to 1999 he was a judge at the Oslo Court of Appeal . From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the International Criminal Court for Rwanda, from 1999 to 2003 Vice-President and from 2003 to 2007 President, succeeding the South African Navanethem Pillay . He was also the presiding judge of Criminal Chamber I. In 2009 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Norway. Two years later he was elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights. He took up this position on September 1, 2011.

On January 9, 2008, he was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in the commander level.

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• Biography in the Norwegian Government's candidate proposal for the ECHR (p. 25)
• Short biography on the homepage of the ICTR (English with picture)
• Short biography in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)