Theodor Meron

Theodor Meron ( born April 28, 1930 in Kalisz, Poland ) is an American lawyer of Polish descent and from March 2003 to November 2005 and again since November 2011 President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In December 2011, also he was elected judge of the International Residualmechanismus for the ad hoc criminal tribunals ( IRMCT ), which acts as the successor institution of the ad hoc criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda in July 2012. In addition, he was appointed the first president of the IRMCT.

Theodor Meron graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Harvard University and at the University of Cambridge. In 1977 he became a professor of international law. In 1994 he was a professor at New York University. He received 1987 ASIL Certificate of Merit ( certificate of merit ) of the American Society of International Law for his work published a year before the Human Rights Law Making in the United Nations and in 2006 the Manley O. Hudson Medal for outstanding contributions in the field of international law.

Meron is by his judgment president of the most powerful among the 18 judges of the UN tribunal in The Hague. His colleague Frederik Harhoff Danish judge accuses him in June 2013, after the recent series of surprising acquittals for alleged Balkan war criminals put powerful political interests. And he gives a name: Court President Meron. The last had prevailed in the judiciary is a legal course correction towards more caution in dealing with incomplete lines of evidence. Meron prevents judgments against suspected war criminals such as the Croatian General Ante Gotovina; Officials from the U.S. and Israel had exerted pressure.

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• Support the Manley O. Hudson Medal
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