The Chambers

The Chambers

The three Trial Chambers and the Appeals Chamber are composed of judges elected by the General Assembly from a list submitted by the Security Council. They are initially selected from a list of nominees submitted by Member States of the United Nations. Nominations must take account of adequate representation of the principal legal systems of the world. The judges are elected for a term of four years. They are eligible for re-election.

Three Trial Chambers and an Appeals Chamber are composed of 16 independent judges. No two of them may be nationals of the same State. Three judges sit in each of the Trial Chambers and five judges sit in the Appeals Chamber which is shared with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

By its Resolution 1431 of 14 August 2002 the Security Council decided to establish a pool of 18 ad litem judges. At any one time, a maximum of four ad litem judges may be attached to the Trial Chambers. On 27 October 2003, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1512 and increased the number of ad litem judges who may serve on the Tribunal at any one time from 4 to 9. By its Resolution 1855 of 19 December 2008, the United Nations Security Council decided that the Secretary-General may appoint, within existing resources, additional ad litem Judges upon request of the President of the International Tribunal in order to complete existing trials or conduct additional trials, notwithstanding that the total number of ad litem Judges appointed to the Chambers will from time to time temporarily exceed the maximum of nine provided for in article 11, paragraph 1, of the Statute of the International Tribunal, to a maximum of twelve at any one time, returning to a maximum of nine by 31 December 2009

Judges in Order of Precedence
	Name	Country of Origin	Chamber
1.	Judge Charles Michael Dennis Byron	St. Kitts & Nevis	President ICTR Member, Trial Chamber III
2.	Judge Khalida Rachid Khan	Pakistan	Vice-President ICTR Presiding Judge, Trial Chamber III
3.	Judge Patrick Robinson	Jamaica	Presiding Judge, Appeals Chamber
4.	Judge William H. Sekule	United Republic of Tanzania	Presiding Judge, Trial Chamber II
5.	Judge Erik Møse	Norway	Presiding Judge Trial Chamber I
6.	Judge Mehmet Güney	Turkey	Member, Appeals Chamber
7.	Judge Fausto Pocar	Italy	Member, Appeals Chamber
8.	Judge Liu Daqun	China	Member, Appeals Chamber
9.	Judge Andrésia Vaz	Senegal	Member, Appeals Chamber
10.	Judge Theodor Meron	United States	Member, Appeals Chamber
11.	Judge Carmel Agius	Malta	Member, Appeals Chamber
12.	Judge Arlette Ramaroson	Madagascar	Member, Trial Chamber II
13.	Judge Sergei Alekseevich Egorov	Russian Federation	Member, Trial Chamber I
14.	Judge Joseph Asoka Nihal De Silva	Sri Lanka	Member, Trial Chamber II
Ad Litem Judges
15.	Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa	Uganda	Member, Trial Chamber II
16.	Judge Lee Gacugia Muthoga	Kenya	Member, Trial Chamber II
17.	Judge Florence Rita Arrey	Cameroun	Member, Trial Chamber III
18.	Judge Emile Francis Short	Ghana	Member, Trial Chamber II
19.	Judge Taghrid Hikmet	Jordan	Member, Trial Chamber II
20.	Judge Seon Ki Park	Republic of Korea	Member, Trial Chamber II
21.	Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam	Burkina Faso	Member, Trial Chamber III
22.	Judge Vagn Joensen	Denmark	Member, Trial Chamber III
23.	Judge Joseph Masanche	Tanzania	Member, Trial Chamber I
24.	Judge Mparany Rajohnson	Madagascar	Member, Trial Chamber I
25.	Judge Aydin Akay	Turkey	Member, Trial Chamber III