Joyce Aluoch

Joyce Aluoch

Joyce Aluoch (born  October 22, 1947 in Kisumu ) is a Kenyan lawyer . She served as a judge at various courts in her home country between 1974 and 2008 and served as a judge at the International Criminal Court from March 2009 to March 2018 .

Life

Joyce Aluoch was born in Kisumu in 1947 and, after studying law, obtained an LL.B. degree from the University of Nairobi in 1973 . A year later, she completed postgraduate studies at the Kenya School of Law . She also obtained a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 2008 .

From 1974 to 1982 she was in her home country as a District Court judge ( magistrates ) operates and first with particular juvenile criminal matters and later with criminal and family law cases concerned. From 1983 she was a judge on the High Court of Kenya, where she served until 2007. She then moved to the Court of Appeal , the second highest court in the Kenyan legal system.

From 2003 to 2008 Joyce Aluoch was also a member and vice-chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, after having headed the African Union 's Committee of Experts on Children's Rights from 2001 to 2005 . In January 2009 she was elected judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague , where she had worked for a regular term of nine years since March of the same year and was a member of the Trial Division. On March 10, 2018, she resigned from the college of judges according to schedule.

literature

• Aluoch, Joyce (Kenya). In: Third Election of Judges of the International Criminal Court. Annex: Alphabetical List of Candidates (with Statements of Qualifications) . Document no. ICC-ASP / 7/33 / Add.1. Published by the Assembly of the Contracting Parties to the International Criminal Court, 2008, pp. 7–11 ( PDF file , approx. 928KB)
• Biographical Data of Nominees. Joyce Aluoch (Kenya). In: Election, in Accordance with Article 43 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, of five Members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to Replace those Whose Terms are Due to Expire on February 28, 2003 . Document no. CRC / SP / 33. Published by the United Nations, 2003, p. 5/6 ( PDF file , approx. 179KB)

Web links

• International Criminal Court - Judge Joyce Aluoch (Kenya) (English, with picture)