Education
He was educated at Jamaica College, University of the West Indies (Bachelor, 1964), the University of London (Bachelor of Laws, 1968) and King"s College London (Master of Laws, 1972).
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He was first elected to the Tribunal in 1998 and has been re-elected twice since. In 2004, he presided over the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former Yugoslav president and the first former head of state to be tried for war crimes. He is the recipient of the national award,, awarded by the government of Jamaica for services to International Law and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.
He is the recipient of the award of Honorary Membership of the American Society of International Law for 2011.
He is the author of the book Jamaican Athletics – A Model for 2012 and the World. In November 2014 he was elected as judge for the International Court of Justice.
1988–1995: Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1991–1996: Member, International Law Commission Since 1996: Member, International Bioethics Committee 1995–1996: Foreign member, Haiti Truth and Justice Commission 1997: Chairman, United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations 1998–2015: Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 2008–2011: President, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Since 2015: Judge, International Court of Justice.
Membership
He is elected as a member of the International Court of Justice for the term commencing February 2015.
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