Joan Donoghue

Joan E. Donoghue ( born December 12, 1956 in Yonkers ) is an American lawyer. She was from 1984 in various positions working for the U.S. State Department. Since September 9, 2010, she heard as a judge at the International Court in The Hague.

Life

Donoghue studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she earned a bachelor in 1978 in Russian and biology. A subsequent study of law at the University of California, Berkeley, she graduated in 1981 with the Juris Doctor from.

From 1981 to 1984 Donoghue worked for the international law firm Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. Subsequently, she moved to the U.S. State Department, where she worked for Inter- American Affairs from 1984 to 1986 in the office. In this position, she was, among others, to represent the United States in case " concerning military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua " entrusted to the International Court of Justice. In 1986 she was briefly in the office for law enforcement and intelligence services before she was appointed in the same year as head of the Bureau of Diplomatic Law and litigation. She then 1989-1991 Deputy Legal Adviser for Oceans, Environment and Science and was involved in this function, among others, the negotiations on the UNFCCC United Nations.

In 1991 Donoghue worked at the Faculty of Law at Georgetown University as an associate professor of the law of international relations. In 1992 she was a visiting professor at the University of Berkeley, where she also taught international environmental law in addition to the law of international relations.

From 1993 to 1994 Donoghue was Deputy Legal Adviser for African Affairs, where she focused in particular on the situation in South Africa and the Establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the U.S. State Department. In 1994 she was appointed as Deputy Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs and held this position until 1999.

From 1999 to 2000 Donoghue worked as Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Treasury of the United States, then to 2001 as Deputy Legal Adviser again for the U.S. State Department.

In 2001 Donoghue to the mortgage lender Freddie Mac, where she served as Deputy General Counsel and from 2003 to 2005 worked as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary until 2003. In 2005 she went again as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, this time in the field of international law.

As of 2007, Donoghue was then re- worked for the State Department. As Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, she represented the United States in particular in the legal dialogue with the European Union, the prison camp at Guantanamo was concerned with the implementation of the orders of President Barack Obama concerning and advised, as the managing legal advisor to January to June 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama in international affairs.

Since September 9, 2010 Donoghue heard as a judge at the International Court in The Hague. This was in by Thomas Buergenthal, who had finished his lasting until February 5, 2015 term of office prematurely to return to the George Washington University.

Donoghue, in addition to knowledge of Russian and knowledge of Arabic, Spanish and French.

Awards

For their achievements Donoghue has won several awards, so in 2009 with the Distinguished Honor Award, the highest award, which is awarded by the U.S. Secretary of State, and in 2009 with the Presidential Rank Award ( Meritorious Executive). 1988, she was awarded by the U.S. Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the title of a Younger Federal Lawyer.

Publications (selection )

  • The Public Face of Private International Law: Prospects for a Convention on State Immunity Foreign. In: Law and Contemporary Problem, 1994, Vol 57, No. 3, ISSN 0023-9186, p 305
  • EC participation in the protection of the marine environment. In: Marine Policy, 1993, No. 17, ISSN 0308 - 597X, pp. 515
  • Taking the ' sovereign ' out of the foreign sovereign immunities act: a functional approach to the comercial activities exception. In: Yale Journal of International Law, 1992, No. 17, ISSN 0889-7743, p 489
  • The trade of commission of international environmental agreements: They can be reconciled with the GATT? . In: American Society of International Law Proceedings, 1992, No. 86, p 233
  • Perpetual immunity for foreign diplomats? A Response to "the Abisiinito Affair: a restrictive theory of diplomatic immunity? ". In: Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 1989, No. 27, ISSN 0010-1931, p 615
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