René Blattmann
René Blattmann Bauer ( born January 28, 1948 in La Paz ) is a Bolivian lawyer. He worked from 1973 to 1980 as a professor at the University Mayor de San Andrés, and from 1990 to 1994 at the Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo. From 1994 to 1997 he served in his country as Minister of Justice and Human Rights and continued during this time, a comprehensive modernization of the Bolivian legal system through. With the beginning of 2003 he worked as a judge at the International Criminal Court, where he served from 2006 until 2009, the office of Vice President. Since April 2013 René Blattmann owner is a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Life
René leaf man was born in La Paz in 1948 and gained at the local German school, the High School. He studied from 1966 to 1972 Law at the University of Basel. After further comparative studies in Strasbourg and in Pescara in 1975, he opened a law practice in his home country. In addition, he was a professor from 1973 to 1980, the subjects Criminal Law and Comparative Law at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and 1990-1994 Criminal Law at the Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo. At the University of Texas at Dallas in 1980, he obtained a degree in American law and international law.
From 1994 to 1997 he served in the government of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was the first Minister of Justice and Human Rights in Bolivia's history. In this role, he initiated major reforms of the legal system and in particular, a systematization and modernization of the criminal law of the country and to strengthen the protection of human and civil rights. Among the implemented measures it included, for example the abolition of the debt tower, restrictions on prison sentences for minors and the elderly, reducing the number of remand prisoners by the possibility of a security and the introduction of legal safeguards against undue delay in criminal proceedings and mobile public defense lawyers in rural regions. In June 2002 he was a candidate for the left - centrist party Movimiento Ciudadano para el Cambio ( Citizens' Movement for Change ), which was created in 2001 as a spin-off of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, in the Bolivian presidential elections. With less than one percent of the vote he achieved, however, only the second to last place among eleven candidates.
In February 2003, he was elected to the newly established International Criminal Court in The Hague to be nominated by the Government of Bolivia to the judge. His choice was made on the suggestion list B for candidates with proven expertise in the area of criminal law for a term of six years. He was at the Court of Justice of the Trial Division assigned and functioned from 2006 to 2009 as one of two Vice-Presidents of the Court. As a judge of the Trial Chamber, he participated in the first practice of the Court against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo part. His term ended with the conclusion of the proceedings at first instance in 2012.
Awards
René sheet husband received for his work in addition to various national honors including the 1995 price " Monsignor Leonidas Proaño " the Asociación Latinoamericana para los Derechos Humanos (Latin American Association for Human Rights), 2001 Carl Bertelsmann Prize, the Bertelsmann Foundation, 2005, the Federal Cross of Merit. In addition, the University of Basel (1998) and the Humboldt University of Berlin ( 2010) awarded him an honorary doctorate.