Posted Tuesday, December 27 2011 at 18:09
Judge Ekaterina Trendafilova, presiding judge
Joined the ICC on March 11, 2006, for a term of nine years.
Assigned to the Pre-Trial Division. She is the presiding judge over the Kenya case.
She was born in 1953 in Bulgaria, and has extensive experience in criminal law, criminal procedural law and international criminal law.
She has been a professor of criminal justice at Sofia University since completing her PhD in 1984.
She was also a deputy district attorney at Sofia District Court (1985-1989) as well as a barrister (1995-2006).
Judge Trendafilova has vast experience as a human rights expert.
Judge Hans-Peter Kaul
Joined the ICC as judge on March 11, 2003, for a term of three years and was re-elected in 2006 for a further term of nine years.
Second Vice-President of the Court as of 11 March 2009 for a term of three years. Assigned to the Pre-Trial Division.
He is the only judge who dissented over the Kenya case. Judge Kaul, born in 1943 is qualified for the German Bar.
In 2002, he was appointed ambassador and commissioner of the Federal Foreign Office for the International Criminal Court.
Judge Cuno Tarfusser
Joined the ICC as judge on March 11, 2009 for a term of nine years. Assigned to the Pre-Trial Division.
Judge Tarfusser, born in 1954 in Italy, has served the Public Prosecution Office of the Bolzano District Court, Italy, as Deputy Public Prosecutor for 16 years and then as Chief Public Prosecutor for eight years.
Under his guidance the working practices of the Office were radically restructured, the organisational model of which is now considered as the standard for the entire justice administration system throughout Italy.
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