Judge Peter Tomka (Slovakia) was elected President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by his peers and Judge Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor (Mexico) was elected Vice-President, each for a term of three years. Their biographies can be accessed here and here. Congratulations and best of luck to them with these important functions! The composition of the Chamber of Summary Procedure is now the following: Members: President Peter Tomka (Slovakia) Vice-President Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor (Mexico) Judges Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somalia) Xue Hanqin (China) Joan E. Donoghue (US) Substitute members: Judges Leonid Skotnikov (Russian Federation) Giorgio Gaja (Italy) Committees of the Court The following…
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I work at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights of the University of Oslo. Previously I have worked at the Amsterdam Center for International Law of the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. During the last over twenty years I have done research, published and taught in the areas of international human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and public international law at universities in the Netherlands, US, China, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Norway.