Hassan Bubacar Jallow

Hassan Bubacar Jallow ( born August 14, 1951 in Bansang ) is a Gambian lawyer and prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR).

Lawyer and minister in Gambia

After studying law at the University of Dar es Salaam from 1973 to 1976 and post-graduate studies at the Nigerian Law School and the University College London from 1976 to 1978, he joined in 1976 in the Ministry of Justice of The Gambia a. From 1976 he was a prosecutor in the Attorney General's office before he was appointed in 1982 as Deputy Advocate General.

In 1984 he was appointed by President Dawda Jawara to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice. He held until the fall Jawaras by Yahya Jammeh in 1994 These offices.

He then spent two years as law lecturer at the Gambia Technical Training Institute until 1996, when he opened his own law firm.

From 1998 to 2002, Jallow Supreme Court of Gambia.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

As early as 1998 he was asked by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as an expert on international law to the legal assessment of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia.

Prior to his appointment as Prosecutor at the ICTR in September 2003 as the successor of Carla Del Ponte, he was a judge at the Court of Appeal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and a member of the Arbitration Court of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Already in the past, Jallow had as a legal expert of the Organization of African Unity (OAU ) with Human and Peoples ' rights and has contributed to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981.

Awards

• ? - Commander, Order of the Republic of The Gambia (CRG )

Works

• The Law of the African ( Banjul) Charter on Human and People's Rights. Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1-4251-1418-0