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Raul Pangalangan

Judge, International Criminal Court 

Biography:

Member of the Court since 13 July 2015.

Judge Pangalangan (1958) came to the ICC from the University of the Philippines where he taught constitutional law and international public law as a law professor and former dean of law. He has taught at Harvard Law School and The Hague Academy of International Law, and taught international humanitarian law to the Red Cross (Red Cross) International Committee. He is an author contributing to comments on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He delivered a keynote address at the Salzburg Seminar on International Criminal Law.

He has been a member of the Philippine Bar since 1984. He has appeared before the Supreme Court of the Philippines and has been designated as an amicus curiae in major constitutional and international law cases. He was Philippine delegate at the drafting of the Rome Statute in 1998 and co-chaired the national campaign for ratification by the Philippines and other states in the Asia-Pacific region.

He studied at Harvard where he earned his LL.M. (winner of the Laylin Prize in International Law) and S.J.D (winner of the Sumner Prize for Best Thesis on International Peace). He holds a degree from The Hague Academy of International Law.

He sits on the boards of directors of the Asian Society of International Law and the International Association of Constitutional Law until 2014. He sits on the boards of various academic journals.

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