Erik Møse

Erik Moses ( born October 9, 1950) is a Norwegian judge. He was 2003-2007 President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is currently a member of the European Court of Human Rights.

Life

Erik Moses completed a law degree at the University of Oslo and postgraduate studies in Geneva. Then he got a teaching position at the University of Oslo, and later he became a Fellow at the University of Essex in England. He has published a lot in the field of human rights and international law and was involved in the drafting of the European Convention on Human Rights and their implementation into Norwegian law.

Until 1986 he was Head of Department in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, then Deputy Judge, 1986-1993 lawyer in the Supreme Court of Norway in the Reich Advocate office ( this is comparable with a Solicitor of the Anglo-Saxon legal system or in Germany with the representatives of the national interest before the Federal Administrative Court ) of 1993 to 1999 he was a judge at the Court of Appeal in Oslo. From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which from 1999 to 2003 and Vice President from 2003 to 2007 President of the South African Navanethem Pillay in succession. He was also Chief Judge of the Trial Chamber I. In 2009 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Norway. Two years later he was elected a judge at the European Court of Human Rights. A position he took up on 1 September 2011.

On 9 January 2008 he was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit in the commander level.

Swell

• Biography in the candidate proposed by the Norwegian government for the ECHR (p. 25)
• Short biography on the website of the ICTR (English with picture)
• Short biography in the Store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

• Richter (International Criminal Court )
• Judge (European Court of Human Rights)
• Support of the Norwegian Order of Merit ( Commander )
• Norwegian
• Born in 1950
• Man