Philippe Kirsch

Lawyer, Judge

1947 –

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Who is Philippe Kirsch?

Philippe Kirsch, OC, QC is a Canadian lawyer who served as a judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2009 and was the Court's first president.

Kirsch was born in Belgium in 1947 and arrived in Canada in 1961. Kirsch holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LL.M. degree from the Université de Montréal.

Kirsch is member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and of the Canadian Council on International Law and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988. He has extensive experience in the process of the establishment of the International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

In 1998 Kirsch served as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole of the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. He was also Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court.

Kirsch served as Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the International Conference on the Problem of War Victims, Chairman of the preparatory and subsequent Intergovernmental Working Groups of Government Experts on the Protection of War Victims, and Chairman of the Drafting Committee at the 26th and 27th International Conferences of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. He was Chairman of the Canadian National Committee on Humanitarian Law and member of the Group of International Advisers to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Born
Apr 1, 1947
Namur, Belgium
Nationality
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • Université de Montréal
Lived in
  • Montreal

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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