Cuno Tarfusser

Cuno Jakob Tarfusser ( born August 11, 1954 in Meran ) is an Italian lawyer. In January 2009 he was elected judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and sworn in on 11 March 2009 in this office. On March 10, 2012 Tarfusser was elected Vice President of the International Criminal Court.

Life

Tarfusser comes from South Tyrol, where he attended from 1969 to 1974 a German-language secondary school in Bolzano. Subsequently, he studied from 1974 to 1975 Law at the University of Innsbruck, but then moved to the University of Padua, where he earned his degree in 1979.

From 1980 Tarfusser worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Padua before he was appointed deputy prosecutor in the prosecutor Bolzano 1985. He was promoted to chief prosecutor in 2001 and led in this function a restructuring of Bolzano prosecutor.

In addition Tarfusser worked as a lecturer in criminal law at various universities and academies, so. Among others at the Police Academy Bolzano, Innsbruck University, the University of Bari, Verona University and the University of Bologna

At the Conference of the States Parties to the Rome Statute in January 2009, he was elected by 74 votes for a term of nine years a judge of the International Criminal Court and heard there at the Pre-Trial Division.

Publications (selection )

• OK fight in Italy. In: Christoph Mayerhofer (ed.): Organized crime. Forensics Verl. , Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-7832-0596-4, pp. 69 ff
• The current Italian legislation in the fight against organized crime with reference to personal experiences determination. In: Christoph Mayerhofer (ed.): Organized crime. Forensics Verl. , Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-7832-0596-4, pp. 259 ff