Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Brazilian judge (1947–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade ((1947-09-17)17 September 1947 – (2022-05-29)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]
This biographical article is written like a résumé. (May 2022) |
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 | (1947-09-17)17 September 1947 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Died | 29 May 2022(2022-05-29) (aged 74) Brasília, Brazil |
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).