Rosalyn Higgins

Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE ( born June 2, 1937 in London) is a British legal scholar. From 1995 to 2009 she was a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague and from 2006 to 2009 its president.

Life

After studying law at Cambridge and Yale, the specialist worked for international law at various institutes in England, and eventually taught at the Universities of Kent and London. After she was a member of several international rights bodies also for many years, she was finally elected in 1995 as the first woman judge at the International Court of regular and confirmed in 2000 in this office. Of 6 February 2006 to 5 February 2009, she was President of the International Court of Justice.

On 3 September 2007 she was awarded the Balzan Prize for International Law since 1945. The International Balzan Foundation honors them "for their contributions to the development of international law since the Second World War, both as an academic, judge and Court President; for her clear, constructive as well as innovative and value-oriented, rule of law and human rights committed books, writings, articles and court decisions; for her leading role in strengthening and development of the modern international law ". From the American Society of International Law in 1992, she was made ​​an honorary member and honored in 1998 with the Manley O. Hudson Medal, the highest award the organization. In 2009 she was awarded the The Hague Prize for International Law.