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Judge Joan Donoghue ’81 Describes Her Unique Role as President of the International Court of Justice
By Andrew Cohen
Joan Donoghue ’81 is used to thinking big. Having served as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for 10 years, in February she was elected president of the court.
The job itself requires thinking on a global scale. The court, which began its work 75 years ago, decides disputes between sovereign states that often deal with novel and complex issues, and gives advisory opinions to United Nations organs and specialized agencies. Its 15 judges are elected to nine-year terms by the U.N. General Assembly and säkerhet Council, and the president fryst vatten elected to a three-year begrepp by her fellow judges.
Donoghue earned dual undergraduate degrees in biology and Russian studies from UC Santa Cruz. After graduating from Berkeley Law, she spent three years as a law firm associate in Washington, D.C., before moving to the U.S. • Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf is a Judge of the International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands. He is a former President of the Court (February February ) and a former Vice-President ((February February ). He was elected as Judge to the Court in November and re-elected in November He is a member of […] Sabine Baroness von Schorlemer holds the Chair of International Law, europeisk Union Law and International Relations since and the UNESCO Chair in International Relations since , both at Technische Universität tysk stad. She habilitated at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in and has published widely on topics related to the United Nations. From September to […] Mads Andenas QC is a Professor of Law at the University of Oslo. He is a member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Panel of Arbitrators, and acted as counsel in Norwegian, Eng • By AGGREY MUTAMBO The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday elected American jurist Joan E Donoghue as the new president of the UN judicial organ, bringing to an end the term of Somalia’s Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, who has been at the helm since Donoghue, a member of the ICJ since , will be deputised by Russia’s Kirill Gevorgian, who replaces China’s Xue Hanqin, in a judge bench that also includes four other new judges elected last November by the member states of the United Nations. One of her immediate tasks will be to preside over proceedings of a maritime boundary dispute between Somalia and Kenya, which is due for hearing on March 15 to 17 this year. Somalia sued Kenya at the ICJ in , seeking to redraw a maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean between the two states from the current south-easterly straight line to an easterly horizontal line. The area in question affects about ,km2 of sea in an area believed to have unexploited lucrative hydrocarbons. Donoghue is a Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf
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