Dalveer Bhandari

Dalveer Bhandari ( born October 1, 1947 in Jodhpur ) is an Indian jurist. He served from 2005 to 2012 as a judge of the Supreme Court of India and has worked as a judge at the International Court of Justice since 2012.

Life

Dalveer Bhandari was born in 1947 and completed his legal education at the University Jodhpur in his home country and at Northwestern University, where he obtained a Master of Laws. He then worked as a lawyer in Chicago, before he returned to India in 1973 and practiced there as a lawyer first at Rajasthan High Court and in 1977 the Supreme Court of India. From 1991, he acted as a judge at the Delhi High Court after 13 years in this position he was appointed in July 2004 to the presiding judge of the Bombay High Court. In October 2005, he joined as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.

He was ( ICJ) elected in April 2012 a judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague by the General Assembly and the UN Security Council. His election took place outside the scheduled elections as election judges, as the current incumbent Aun Shawkat al - Chasauneh had retired as prime minister in his home country Jordan by the ICJ due to his appointment. The swearing-in of Dalveer Bhandari took place on 19 April 2012, his term of office runs until the end of the regular contemporary office of his predecessor in February 2018.

Awards

Dalveer Bhandari 2010 received an honorary doctorate of Tumkur University. The Faculty of Law at Northwestern University elected him in 2009 on the occasion of its 150th anniversary of the foundation as one of its 16 most famous and most outstanding graduates. From the Indian Society of International Law, he was appointed an honorary member.