Hassan Bubacar Jallow
Hassan Bubacar Jallow (born August 14, 1951 in Bansang ) is a Gambian lawyer and prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
Lawyer and Minister in Gambia
After studying law at the University of Dar es Salaam from 1973 to 1976 and postgraduate studies at the Nigerian Law School and University College in London from 1976 to 1978, he joined the Gambian judicial service in 1976. From 1976 he was prosecutor in the attorney general's office before being appointed assistant attorney general in 1982.
In 1984 he was appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice by President Dawda Jawara . He held these offices until Jawara was overthrown by Yahya Jammeh in 1994.
He then worked as a law professor at the Gambia Technical Training Institute for two years before opening his own law firm in 1996.
From 1998 to 2002 Jallow was a judge at the Gambia Supreme Court.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
As early as 1998 he was asked by the Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan as an expert on international law for the legal assessment of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia .
Prior to his appointment as prosecutor at the ICTR in September 2003 to succeed Carla Del Ponte , he was a judge at the Court of Appeal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and a member of the Arbitration Court of the Commonwealth of Nations .
In the past, Jallow had worked as a legal expert for the Organization for African Unity (OAU) on human and international rights and worked on the 1981 African Charter of Human and International Rights .
Awards
- ? - Commander, Order of the Republic of The Gambia (CRG)
Works
- The Law of the African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People's Rights . Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1-4251-1418-0
literature
- Esther Mujawayo, Souâd Belhaddad: “One more life. Ten years after the genocide in Rwanda ”, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-7795-0029-9
Web links
- English-language biography ( memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Press report in "worldpress.org"
- Background information on the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda on the website of the Federal Foreign Office
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hassan Bubacar Jallow (The Gambia) ( Memento from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jallow, Hassan Bubacar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gambian lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bansang |