Nationality: Uganda (African States)
Term: 1 June 2008 - 10 March 2012
Elected from: List B on 3 December 2007
Biography
Judge as of 17 January 2007, for a term of four years and two months (to fill a judicial vacancy). Assigned to the Appeals Division. Elected from the African Group of States, list A.
Judge Nsereko (1941) has comprehensive experience in criminal law and procedure both as a practitioner and an academic. As a lawyer, he has represented defendants in criminal and civil cases before superior and lower courts in Uganda. He served as a Trial Observer to Swaziland (1990) and to Ethiopia (1996), writing comprehensive confidential reports in the context of international human rights standards. He was also on the List of Counsel, eligible to represent the accused and victims before the ICC. From 1983 to 1984, Judge Nsereko served as expert consultant for the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch of the United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. As an academic, Judge Nsereko has published extensively on criminal law and procedure, human rights, humanitarian and international law. He has served as Professor of Law at the University of Botswana since 1996 and was Head of the Law Department for eight years. He also served on the Advisory Committee of the War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) of the American University College of Law.
Judge Nsereko was a Fellow of The Hague Academy of International Law and on two occasions was a Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law at Freiburg, Germany. In addition, Judge Nsereko was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure at the University of Cologne and a Walter S Owen Visiting Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia in Canada. In 1996 the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law awarded him a medal in recognition of his contribution to international human rights and to criminal law reform. Judge Nsereko holds the degrees of LLB from the University of East Africa in Tanzania, M.C.J. from Howard University, and LLM and J.S.D. from New York University.
