Elizabeth Odio Benito

Elizabeth Odio Benito ( born September 15, 1939 in Puntarenas) is a lawyer from Costa Rica. She acted in her home country several times as minister and from 1998 to 2002 as Vice President. In addition, she worked from 1993 to 1998 as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia since 2003, she serves on the International Criminal Court.

Life

Elizabeth Odio Benito was born in 1949 in Puntarenas and closed in 1964 to study law at the Universidad de Costa Rica from where she then worked as a professor and as a lecturer from 1986. She taught as a visiting professor at various universities in Europe and the United States. From 1978 to 1982 and from 1990 to 1994 she served as Minister of Justice, and from 1998 to 2002 as Vice President and environmental and energy minister in their home country.

From 1993 to 1998 she worked as a judge and sole representative of Latin America at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including from 1993 to 1995 as Vice- President of the Court. Since March 2003 she has been a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where it belongs to the Trial Division and from 2003 to 2006 served as second vice president. She was nominated by the Government of Panama on the suggestion list A for candidates with proven expertise in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure law. Their term of office ends as scheduled in 2012.

Since 2000 she is also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The St. Edward 's University in Austin gave Elizabeth Odio Benito in May 2004, an honorary doctorate in recognition of their commitment to peace, human rights and international case law.