Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (17 September 1947 – 29 May 2022) was a Brazilian jurist and international judge. He was appointed as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 6 February 2009.[1] He was reelected to the Court in December 2017, and took office for his second term on 6 February 2018, serving until his death in 2022.[2]
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade | |
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Judge on the International Court of Justice | |
In office 6 February 2009 – 29 May 2022 | |
Preceded by | Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren |
Succeeded by | Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant |
Personal details | |
Born | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | 17 September 1947
Died | 29 May 2022 74) Brasília, Brazil | (aged
Alma mater | Federal University of Minas Gerais (LL.B.) University of Cambridge (LL.M., LL.D.) |
Before joining the ICJ, Cançado Trindade was a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1994 to 2006. He completed two terms as its president from 1999 to 2004.
Cançado Trindade was also a prominent scholar and prolific writer. Most recently, he was a professor at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM).
Education and career
Trindade's professional appointments and academic titles include:
- Professor (Full Professor/Professor Titular) of International Relations and International Law at the University of Brasilia (since 1978) and at the Diplomatic Academy Rio Branco of Brazil (since 1979).
- LL.D. in International Law (1977), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, with a thesis on "Developments in the Rule of Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Law".
- LL.M. in International Law, University of Cambridge (1973)
- LL.B. in Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais (First Prize in Civil Law, 1969)
Cançado Trindade also served as a lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law, the international law courses of the OAS's Inter-American Juridical Committee, the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica). He was a visiting professor at various universities, among them Columbia University (1st semester 1998) and Institute of Higher International Studies (Panthéon-Assas University, sessions of 1988-1989). He was a member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law until his death.
Prior to his appointment to the World Court, he served as a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1994 to 2008, including two terms as its president from 1999 to 2004, and had held several positions in important international organizations.[3] Cançado Trindade was the author of 52 books and around 680 monographs, contributions to books, essays and articles on international law, published in numerous countries and several languages.
Academic recognitions
- Yorke Prize, for Ph.D. Thesis in International Law (1977), University of Cambridge, U.K., with a thesis on "Developments in the Rule of Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Law"
- Honours, International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France (1988)
- Honours, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica (1997)
- Honours, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1999); and University of Brasilia, Brazil (1999); and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2002)
- Professor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (2001)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Central University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (2003)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru (2003)
- Isidro Fabela Prize, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (2003)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, American University of Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay, (2004)
- Pontes de Miranda Prize, Brazilian Academy of Judicial Letters (2004)
- Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia (2005)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina (2005)
- Annual Award of 2007 of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), Washington D.C., United States (2007)
- W. Friedmann Memorial Award, Columbia University, New York, United States (2008)
- Jurist of the Centenary of Hélder Câmara, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2009)
- Emeritus Professor of International Law of the University of Brasília, Brazil (2010)
- Honorary Professor of International Law (Chair in International Tribunals), Utrecht University, Netherlands (2010)
- Honorary Fellow, University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College, 2011)
- National Prize of Human Rights, Brasília, Brazil (2011)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University Panteion of Athens, Greece (2014)
- Prize of the Association of Magistrates of Brazil (Amagis, 2014)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India (2017)
Apart from his native Portuguese, he was fluent in French, Spanish, and English, and understood German and Italian.[4]
Notes
- "International Court of Justice - Current Members". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- "Falecimento do professor Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade". gov.br. 2022-05-29. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
- ICJ curriculum
- Curriculum Lattes
Lectures
- La perennidad del legado de los “Padres Fundadores” del derecho internacional in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- La persona humana en el contencioso interestatal ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- Le système interaméricain de protection des droits de l'homme in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- The Founding Fathers of International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- L’humanisation du droit international in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- The Human Person and International Justice in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- The Access of Individuals to International Justice in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- The Contribution of Latin American Doctrine to the Development of International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- General Principles of Law as a Source of International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- The Human Person and International Justice in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- Jus Cogens in Contemporary International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- The Law of International Institutions in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- La expansión de la jurisdicción internacional y su importancia para la realización de la justicia in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law