Dame Rosalyn Higgins

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Dame Rosalyn Higgins is a distinguished British jurist who served as the first female judge and later President of the International Court of Justice.

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instanceOf human
international lawyer
judge
jurist
appointedBy United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Security Council
awardReceived Balzan Prize for International Law
Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law
Order of the British Empire
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1937-06-12
educatedAt Girton College, Cambridge
Yale Law School
familyName Higgins
fieldOfWork United Nations law
human rights law
international law
givenName Rosalyn
honorificPrefix Dame
honorificSuffix DBE
QC
knownFor being the first female President of the International Court of Justice
being the first female judge of the International Court of Justice
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Society of International Law
British Academy
Institut de Droit International
International Court of Justice
Permanent Court of Arbitration
United Nations Human Rights Committee
notableWork Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It
The Development of International Law through the Political Organs of the United Nations
Themes and Theories: Selected Essays, Speeches and Writings in International Law
United Nations Peacekeeping, 1946–1967
occupation barrister
judge
university teacher
placeOfBirth London
linked to: London, England
positionHeld Judge of the International Court of Justice
Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
President of the International Court of Justice
Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics
Vice-President of the International Court of Justice
sexOrGender female
workLocation London School of Economics
The Hague

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Faculty of Laws, University College London hasNotableAlumni Dame Rosalyn Higgins
subject linked to: Faculty of Laws