Judge Raul Cano Pangalangan

Nationality: Philippines (the) (Asia-Pacific States)

Term: 13 July 2015 - 10 March 2021

Assumed full-time duty: 17 August 2015

Elected from: List B on 24 June 2015

Previously assigned to: Trial Division (11 March 2012 - 16 May 2021)

President of Trial Division: 18/03/2019

Continues in office until 16 May 2021 to finish ongoing proceedings in accordance with paragraph 10, article 36 of the Rome Statute.

Biography

Judge as of 13 July 2015. Elected from the Asian Group of States, list B.

Judge Pangalangan (1958) came to the ICC from the University of the Philippines where he has taught constitutional law and public international law as a Professor of Law and former Law Dean. He has taught inter alia at the Harvard Law School and The Hague Academy of International Law, and has lectured on international humanitarian law for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is a contributing author to the Commentary on the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court. He has delivered the Keynote at the Salzburg Seminar on International Criminal Law. 

He has been a Member of the Philippine Bar since 1984. He has argued before the Philippine Supreme Court and has been designated as amicus curiae in leading constitutional law and international law cases. He was a Philippine Delegate in the drafting of the Rome Statute in 1998 and co-chaired the national campaign for ratification by the Philippines and other Asia-Pacific states.

He studied at Harvard where he received his LL.M. (winning the Laylin Prize in international law) and S.J.D (winning the Sumner Prize for best dissertation on international peace). He holds the Diplôme of The Hague Academy of International Law.

He sits in the governing councils of the Asian Society of International Law and, until 2014, the International Association of Constitutional Law. He sits in the boards of various academic journals.

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Past situations and cases:
The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Aimé Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidèle Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido - Trial Chamber VII ( 24 August 2015 - 20 October 2016 )
The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi - Trial Chamber VIII ( 2 May 2016 - 20 March 2018 ) (Presiding)
The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen - Trial Chamber IX ( 2 May 2016 - 9 June 2021 )
The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen - Pre-Trial Chamber III ( 23 August 2017 - 16 March 2018 )
The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Aimé Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidèle Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido - Trial Chamber VII ( 20 March 2018 - 16 March 2021 )
The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi - Trial Chamber VIII ( 20 March 2018 - 16 March 2021 ) (Presiding)