Ni Zhengyu

Ni Zhengyu, who lived from 1906 to 2003, was a Chinese international law scholar from Jiangsu Province who served as chief legal adviser to China's prosecution team at the Tokyo War Crimes Trials from 1946 to 1948, directly prosecuting two Class-A war criminals. He later represented China in international maritime law negotiations and served as China's coordinator for the final draft of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1981. Elected in November 1984 by an absolute majority of both the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly, he became China's first judge of the International Court of Justice, serving a nine-year term until 1994.