Claude Jorda

Claude Jorda Jean Charles ( born February 16, 1938 in Bône, Algeria ) is a French lawyer. He worked from 1994 to 2003 as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including from 1999 to 2002 as President of the Court, and from 2003 to 2007 as a judge at the International Criminal Court.

Life

Claude Jorda was born in 1938 in the Algerian city Bône and gained in 1961 at the University of Toulouse, the Licence in Law. Then graduated from 1963 to 1966 studying in Bordeaux at the École nationale de la magistrature ( ENM ) of the French Academy for training of judges. At the University of Provence Aix -Marseille I, he also earned a degree in Criminology in 1965. From 1966 to 1970, he then worked first in the French Ministry of Justice before he served as Secretary General of the ENM 1970-1976. After he was then first returned to the Ministry of Justice, he became in 1978 Vice-President of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris. In this capacity he worked until 1982, then he went again to 1985 the Ministry of Justice. From 1985 to 1992 he acted then as Attorney General at the Cour d'appel de Bordeaux and from 1992 to 1994 held the same position in Paris. In addition, he taught from 1967 to 1970 at the University of Paris II, from 1971 to 1976 at the University of Bordeaux and in 1996/ 1997 from the University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

From 1994 he worked as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where he was from 1995 to 1999 president of the first process chamber and, after his re-election as a judge in 1997, 1999 to 2002 President of the Court. In this capacity, he presented in 2000 a report on the work of the court with proposals for its reform, as a result increases the number of judges and the possibility of appointment of ad litem judges was created. In February 2003, he was elected on the proposal list A for candidates with proven expertise in the field of criminal law and criminal procedural law for six years a judge of the newly created International Criminal Court in The Hague. There he was a member of the Pre-Trial Division and was Chief Judge in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. In August 2007, he retired for health reasons of this office, his successor for the remainder of his term of office was Fumiko Saiga of Japan.

Awards

Claude Jorda is since 1993 an officer of the French Legion of Honour and in 2000 commander of the Ordre National du Mérite.