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Vice President of the International Court of Justice

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Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897-8 May 1960) was a British international lawyer, human rights activist, and judge at the International Court of Justice.

He has been a member of the International Court of Justice since 22 June 2018, following the resignation of Judge Hisashi Owada.

Georg Nolte (born 3 October 1959) is a German jurist and Judge of the International Court of Justice.

She has been a Judge of the International Court of Justice since 5 November 2021, and is Harrison Moore Professor of Law and Melbourne Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University.

He serves as judge of the International Court of Justice since 4 November 2022.

Sarah Hull Cleveland (born September 4, 1965), an American judge, lawyer, law professor, and former State Department official, is a judge on the International Court of Justice and the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School (currently on leave of absence).

Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Justice.

Dire Tladi (born 20 April 1975) is a Judge at the International Court of Justice and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

She has served as a judge of the International Court of Justice since November 2025.

Rosalyn Cohen Higgins, Lady Higgins, (born 2 June 1937) is a British judge who was a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1995 to 2009.

He also served as a judge on the International Court of Justice and as President of the Constitutional Council, Algeria's highest judicial authority of constitutionality review.

Bruno Simma (born March 29, 1941, in Quierschied, Germany) is a German jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), from 2003 until 2012.

He was also formerly a judge of the International Court of Justice.

He served as judge of the International Court of Justice between 1965 and 1976.

State Department official, and former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Manuel Alejandro Álvarez Jofré (February 9, 1868, July 19, 1960) was a Chilean professor of international law and a judge at the International Court of Justice.

José Gustavo Guerrero (26 June 1876-25 October 1958) was a Salvadoran diplomat and jurist who served as the last president of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1937 to 1946 and the first president of the International Court of Justice from 1946 to 1949.

Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair (4 March 1885-22 May 1975) was a British jurist and judge of the International Court of Justice and later the first president of the European Court of Human Rights.

Green Haywood Hackworth (Prestonsburg, Kentucky, January 23, 1883, Washington, DC, June 24, 1973) was an American jurist who served as the first U.S. judge on the International Court of Justice, as President of the International Court of Justice, as the longest running Legal Adviser to the US Depar

He served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 1979 until 1995.

Manfred Lachs (21 April 1914-14 January 1993) was a Polish diplomat and jurist who served as a Judge of the International Court of Justice and greatly influenced the development of international law after World War II.

Shigeru Oda (小田 滋, Oda Shigeru; 22 October 1924-4 September 2025) was a Japanese jurist who was a judge on the International Court of Justice from 1976 until 2003, when he retired.

National Group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as president of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal (1993-2010), as president of the International Court of Justice (1997-2000), as vice president of the International Court of Justice (1994-1997), and as Judge of the Internat

Sri Lankabhimanya Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, AM (17 November 1926-5 January 2017) was a Sri Lankan lawyer who was a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1991 to 2000, serving as its vice-president from 1997 to 2000.

Thomas Buergenthal (11 May 1934-29 May 2023) was a Czechoslovak-born American international lawyer, scholar, law school dean, and judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Taslim Olawale Elias (11 November 1914-14 August 1991) was a Nigerian jurist who served as minister of Justice and attorney-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1966, Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975 and president of the International Court of Justice from 1982 to 1985.

Prince Sri Nagendra Singh (18 March 1914-11 December 1988; Hindi pronunciation: [n̪əgeːn̪d̪ɾə sɪŋgʱ]) was an Indian lawyer and administrator who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1985 to 1988.

Gilbert Pierre Guillaume (born 4 December 1930; French pronunciation: [ʒilbɛʁ ɡijom]) is a French jurist and judge who served as the 19th President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague from 2000 to 2003.

Shi Jiuyong (simplified Chinese: 史久镛; traditional Chinese: 史久鏞; 9 October 1926-18 January 2022) was a Chinese judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

José Francisco Rezek (born January 18, 1944, in Cristina) is a Brazilian judge who served as a member of the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, Netherlands, from 1996 to 2006.

She became a widely respected authority, lectured in many institutions, was for 30 years professor at the Faculty of Law of Paris (Paris II after 1971) and was a judge in the International Court of Justice.

He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 1964 and 1973 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice between 1960 and 1973, before becoming a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in 1974.

He served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 6 February 2003 until 7 June 2018, and was president of the court from 2009 to 2012.

Sir Christopher John Greenwood (born 12 May 1955) is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, an arbitrator of international disputes, and a former British judge at the International Court of Justice.

Hardy Cross Dillard (23 October 1902-12 May 1982) was an American jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 1970 to 1979, as a judge appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to a court of arbitration concerning the Beagle Channel islands dispute, Dean of the University of Virg

Baxter served as a judge on the International Court of Justice (1979-1980), as a professor of law at Harvard University (1954 - 1979) and as an enlisted man and officer in the U.S.

A scholar in international law, he was elected in 2012 as a judge of the International Court of Justice.

He was appointed as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 6 February 2009.

Patrick Lipton Robinson (born 29 January 1944) is a Jamaican jurist who was a judge of the International Court of Justice from February 2015 to 2024.

He also served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and, from 2006 to 2024, as a judge on the International Court of Justice.

He served two terms as judge at the International Court of Justice (from 1994 to 2012).

Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo "Bola" Ajibola, SAN, KBE, CFR (22 March 1934-8 April 2023) was a Nigerian jurist, who was the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 and a judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994.

He was later Ambassador to the United States (1951-1958) and a member of the International Court of Justice (1958-1967), including as president of the court from 1964 to 1967.

Charles Dadi Umeha Onyeama (26 April 1916-5 September 1999) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the first Nigerian judge at the International Court of Justice, and father of the former Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and writer Dillibe Onyeama.

Jens Ingebret Evensen (5 November 1917-15 February 2004) was a Norwegian lawyer, judge, politician (for the Labour Party), trade minister, international offshore rights expert, member of the International Law Commission and judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Bohdan Stefan Winiarski (27 April 1884-4 December 1969) was a Polish politician and jurist who served as President of the International Court of Justice from 1961 to 1964.

He was judge of the International Court of Justice, judge and twice vice president of the Yugoslavia tribunal and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

He worked from 1931 to 1941 as deputy foreign minister of his country, as ambassador to Australia and to Turkey, and from 1946 until his death as a judge at the International Court of Justice.

He was a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1979 until his death in 1981.

Raymond Ranjeva (born August 31, 1942) served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from February, 1991 until February, 2009.

Carl-August Fleischhauer (9 December 1930 in Düsseldorf, Germany, 4 September 2005 in Bonn) was a judge at the International Court of Justice, of which he was a member from 6 February 1994 to 2003.

From 1949 to 1957, he served as member of the International Law Commission and from 1958 to 1967, he served as judge at the International Court of Justice.

He was a judge of the International Court of Justice.

He served as a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1976 until his death.

From 1970 to 1979, he was judge at the International Court of Justice.

Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (5 December 1928-3 December 2016) was a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.

From 1937 he was as a professor of civil law at the Faculdade Nacional de Direito and he served from 1946 until his death as a judge at the International Court of Justice.

Gaetano Morelli (Crotone, 23 May 1900 - Rome, 22 May 1989) was an Italian jurist and magistrate, judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1961 to 1970.

He served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 1970 until 1979.

He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Elaraby also served on the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva from 1999 to 2001, and was a member of the International Court of Justice from 2001 to February 2006.

He was Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the 1980s under President Miguel de la Madrid and is a former judge of the International Court of Justice.

Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga (Montevido, 1918, Punta del Este, 5 April 1994) was an Uruguayan professor, jurist, and President of the International Court of Justice.

He was a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1946 to 1958.

In 1993, he was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice, succeeding Manfred Lachs after his death.

John Erskine Read, (July 5, 1888, December 23, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and the only Canadian judge elected to the International Court of Justice.

In 1946, he was selected to serve as Judge at the International Court of Justice where he served until his death on 4 August 1965.

From 1921 to 1933 he was member of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and was President of the Institut de Droit International from 1931 to 1932.

He then served as a judge on International Court of Justice ("World Court") from 1973 to 1991.

He also served as the president of the International Court of Justice from 1967 to 1970.

Charles Marie Joseph Désiré de Visscher (2 August 1884-2 January 1973) was a Belgian scholar and practitioner of international law, as well as judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice and International Court of Justice.

Kéba Mbaye (5 August 1924-11 January 2007) was a Senegalese judge and member of both the International Olympic Committee and the International Court of Justice.

In 2014, he was elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a term beginning the following year.

He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005 and served a nine-year term from 2006 to 2015.

In 1995, he returned to his former position as Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden, serving until his appointment to the International Court of Justice.

After serving as foreign minister, he continued his international career and is the only Pakistani to-date to preside over the International Court of Justice.

Leonid Skotnikov (Леони́д Скотников; born 26 March 1951) is a Russian judge who served on the United Nations International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands between 2006 and 2015.

Luigi Ferrari Bravo (5 August 1933-7 February 2016) was an Italian professor and legal expert who served as judge for the International Court of Justice in the 1990s.

Mosler was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1959 to 1980 and at the International Court of Justice from 1976 to 1985.

In November 1966, a few months after his retirement, he became the first Filipino to be appointed to the International Court of Justice.

China's ambassador to the United States, and sat as a judge on the International Court of Justice in the Hague from 1957 to 1967. He retired to New

state. From February 1952 until his death, he was a judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Before his election to the court, h

He has also served as a Judge ad hoc in three cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2014. He is currently affiliated with