New Judges Appointed at the ECCC

ECCCProfessor Michael Bohlander (Germany) has been appointed as new Reserve International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), replacing Judge Olivier Beauvallet (France) who was appointed as International Judge in the Pre-Trial Chamber earlier this year.

Professor Bohlander is currently Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law at Durham Law School, where he has been a professor since 2004.

From 1991 to 2004 Professor Bohlander served as trial and appellate judge in criminal and civil matters in the courts of the East German Free State of Thuringia, in the transitional stage after German unification in 1990. From 1999 until 2001 he served as a Senior Legal Officer of a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Professor Bohlander holds a doctorate of law from Saarland University, where he also obtained his law degree.

Judge BAIK Kang Jin (Republic of Korea) was also appointed as new International Judge in the Pre-Trial Chamber. He replaces judge Rowan Downing (Australia) who resigned earlier this year.

Raising the Bar at the ICC

International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court

In a recent op-ed, Tiina Intelman, President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC), wrote about the upcoming elections of new ICC judges.

After explaining that the States will go through a complex voting process to choose the most qualified candidates, Intelman highlights the recent establishment of an Advisory Committee designed to assist the States in selecting the best candidates possible and thus raising even more the level of competence of the ICC judges. The Committee will be meeting at the beginning of December in New York in order to interview the candidates and produce a report which will be at the States’ disposal.

The elections are scheduled for the thirteenth session of the Assembly of State Parties, to be held in New York from 8-17 December 2014. The judges will be elected for a period of 9 years.