Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Cançado Trindade at a committee of the Brazilian Senate in 2008
Judge on the International Court of Justice
In office
6 February 2009 – 29 May 2022
Preceded byGonzalo Parra-Aranguren
Succeeded byLeonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant
Personal details
Born(1947-09-17)17 September 1947
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died29 May 2022(2022-05-29) (aged 74)
Brasília, Brazil
Alma materFederal University of Minas Gerais (LL.B.)
University of Cambridge (LL.M., LL.D.)

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]

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:

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

  1. ↑ "International Court of Justice - Current Members". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  2. ↑ "Falecimento do professor Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade". gov.br. 2022-05-29. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  3. ↑ ICJ curriculum
  4. ↑ Curriculum Lattes

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