Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca | |
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Judge of the Supreme Court of city of Buenos Aires | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca (née Inés Mónica Weinberg) is an
From 2003 to 2008 she was a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, serving the joint Appeal Chamber of the ICTR and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague from 2003 to 2005, and on the trial chamber in Arusha, Tanzania from 2005 to 2008.
Before becoming an international Judge, Justice Weinberg de Roca was a
Personal life and education
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca was born to a middle class,
She went to St Peter's School, an English school in a northern Buenos Aires suburb. She holds a law degree of the University of Buenos Aires and a Juris Doctor from the National University of La Plata, in Argentina. Her doctoral thesis was nominated to the Premio Facultad (Faculty Award). The jury approved it with the magna cum laude distinction.
Justice Weinberg de Roca was a researcher in Private International Law at the
She speaks Spanish, English, German and French. She was married to diplomat Eduardo A. Roca (1921–2019), who was Argentina's ambassador to the United Nations during the country's last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and to the United States and the OAS during the military dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966–1970).[1]
Lawyer and Judge
Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca worked as an independent lawyer in Buenos Aires, before being appointed a civil judge in Buenos Aires in 1993.
In 2000, she was selected as an appeals judge at the newly created Administrative and Tax Courts (Tribunales Contencioso Administrativos y Tributarios).
In 2013 Justice Weinberg de Roca was appointed a Justice at the Supreme Court of Buenos Aires.
International career
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca served as an Advisor on
In 2002, Argentina appointed Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca as its candidate for the
On May 26, 2003, Justice Inés Weinberg de Roca sworn in as Judge of the ICTR, based in Arusha, Tanzania.
Since the ICTR has two representatives at the shared Appeals Chamber (together with the
In the fall of 2005, Justice Inés Weinberg de Roca transferred back to the ICTR and was the Presiding Judge in the trials of, among others, Protais Zigiranyirazo, known as “Mr. Z”, and Simon Bikindi. In December 2008 she delivered the judgments in the cases of Bikindi and Zigiranyirazo.
In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly appointed Justice Weinberg de Roca as a judge of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal for the 2009-2016 period. She was the first President of the Tribunal (2009-2010). However, in November 2009 her conviction of Zigiranyirazo was overturned by the Appeal Chamber of the ICTR, which acquitted him on all charges and found that Weinberg de Roca had made serious errors[2] and that there had been a miscarriage of justice.[3] This came as a severe blow to her international credibility.
Publications
- Derecho Internacional Privado: Buenos Aires, De Palma 1997; 2nd ed.: Lexis Nexis 2002; 3rd ed: Lexis Nexis 2004, 4th ed.: Abeledo- Perrot 2011.
- Competencia internacional y ejecución de sentencias extranjeras, Buenos Aires, Astrea 1994.
- Sentencing and Incarceration in the Ad Hoc Tribunals, (in collaboration with Christopher M. Rassi), Stanford Journal of International Law 2008, vol. 44.
- The influence of national proceedings against War Criminals after World War II on the jurisprudence of the ICTY and Vice Versa, Historische Dimensionen von Kriegsverbrecherprozessen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Hsg. Radtke, Rössner, Schiller und Form, Nomos/Dike 2007, p. 61.
- Ten Years and Counting: The Development of International Law at the ICTR, New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, volume 12, 2005, number 1, p. 69.
- Conflict of Jurisdictions vs. Conflict of Laws, International Cooperation Through Private International Law, Essays in Memory of Peter E. Nygh, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2004, p. 489.
- Private International Law in a Global World, Festschrift für Erik Jayme, Sellier 2004.
References
- ^ "The winner is..." Diario Judicial (in Spanish). 11 December 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Nancy A. Combs, Fact-Finding without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions (Cambridge University Press, 3 2010), p. 331
- ^ Yvonne McDermott, Fairness in International Criminal Trials (2016), p. 102
External links
- Justice Weinberg de Roca's short CV, in Spanish
- Justice Weinberg de Roca's short CV, in English
- Justice Weinberg de Roca's short CV, in French
- ICTY's official website
- ICTR's official website
- Inés Weinberg de Roca: el desafío de hacer justicia después del horror, La Nación, Buenos Aires, March 22, 2009 (Spanish)