Joyce Aluoch

Joyce Aluoch ( born October 22, 1947 in Kisumu ) is a Kenyan lawyer. She was 1974-2008 as a judge in various courts in their home country and acts in March 2009 as a judge at the International Criminal Court.

Life

Joyce Aluoch was born in 1947 in Kisumu and obtained by a study of the law in 1973 an LL.B. degree from the University of Nairobi. A year later, she completed postgraduate studies at the Kenya School of Law. At the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, she also acquired in 2008 a Master of Arts in the field of International Relations.

From 1974 to 1982 she worked in their home country as a District Court judge ( magistrates ) and first later is particularly concerned with juvenile criminal matters as well as criminal and family law cases. From 1983, she served on as a judge in the High Court of Kenya, where they held office until 2007. She then moved to the Court of Appeal, the second highest court in the Kenyan judiciary.

From 2003 to 2008, Joyce Aluoch also a member and Vice Chairman of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, after she had already passed from 2001 to 2005, the Expert Committee on Children's Rights of the African Union. In January 2009 she was elected judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where she has worked for a regular term of nine years since March of the same year and the Trial Division belongs.