Rosalyn Higgins

Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE (b. in London, 1937) is the President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006.

She has been a member of the Court since July 12, 1995, and was re-elected as of February 6, 2000. She studied at Cambridge (undergraduate and Master's degrees in Law) and Yale (doctorate). She was a staff specialist in International Law, of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1963- 1974; Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics, 1974-1978; Professor of International Law, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1978-1981; Professor of International Law in the University of London (London School of Economics), 1981-. She was a practising barrister, and became a QC in 1986, and is a bencher of the Inner Temple.

Dame Rosalyn is the author of several influential works on international law, including Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It (1994).

External link

• ICJ biography.