Patrick Robinson (judge)

Patrick Robinson, 2014

Patrick Lipton Robinson (born January 29, 1944 in Jamaica ) is a Jamaican Crown Counsel . He served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1998 to 2011 , including as President of the Court from 2008 to 2011. Since December 2011 he has been a member of the college of judges of the International Residual Mechanism for the ad hoc criminal courts , the joint successor institution of the ICTY and the International Criminal Court for Rwanda . He has also been a judge at the International Court of Justice since February 2015 .

Life

After earning a Bachelor's degree in London in 1964 and a Bachelor-with-Honors degree there in 1968, Robinson became Crown Counsel in Jamaica in 1968. He held this position for various Jamaican authorities until 1998. In addition, Robinson was an advisor to the Jamaican Foreign Minister in 1972 and 1973 and represented Jamaica from 1972 to 1998 on the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations . In addition, from 1981 to 1998 he headed various Jamaican delegations for the drafting of international treaties.

Robinson was also a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights from 1988 to 1995 , of which he was president since 1991. He was also a member of the International Law Commission from 1991 to 1996 and a foreign member of the Haitian Truth and Justice Commission from 1995 to 1996 . In 1997, Robinson was Jamaican Ambassador to the Annual Session of the United Nations General Assembly and the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and Chairman of the twelfth session of UNCTAD . Robinson has been a member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee since 1996.

On November 16, 1998, Patrick Robinson was appointed judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). On November 4, 2008, he was elected President of the ICTY at an extraordinary plenary meeting of the ICTY judges' college. He held this office from November 17, 2008 to November 17, 2011. In December 2011 he was elected as judge of the International Residual Mechanism for the ad hoc criminal courts , which has served as the joint successor to the ICTY and the International Criminal Court for Rwanda since July 2012 . In November 2014 he was also elected judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . His regular nine-year term began in February 2015.

Honors

• Order of Jamaica (2009)
• Honorary membership of the American Society for International Law (2011)

Web links

• Robinson's curriculum vitae on the ICTY homepage

Individual evidence

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