His Excellency The Honourable Patrick Lipton Robinson | |
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| Judge of the International Court of Justice | |
| Assumed office February 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor |
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| Born | 29 January 1944 Jamaica |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies (BA) University of London (LLB) King's College London (LLM) |
Patrick Lipton Robinson (born 29 January 1944) is a Jamaican jurist. Currently a member of the International Court of Justice for the term commencing February 2015. Prior to this he was formerly the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, a position he held between 2008 and 2011[1] during which time his Chef de Cabinet was Gabrielle Louise McIntyre. 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.
He was educated at Jamaica College, University of the West Indies (BA, 1964), the University of London (LLB, 1968) and King's College London (LLM, 1972). He is the recipient of the national award, Order of Jamaica, 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.[2]
He is the author of the book Jamaican Athletics – A Model for 2012 and the World.
He is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.
