Nationality: Czech Republic (the) (Eastern Europe)
Term: 11 March 2012 - 10 March 2021
Assumed full-time duty: 1 March 2013
Elected from: List A on 13 December 2011
Previously assigned to: Trial Division (11 March 2012 - 16 March 2021)
First Vice-President: 11/03/2018 - 10/03/2021
Biography
Judge as of 11 March 2012 for a term of nine years. Assigned to the Trial Division; assumed full time duty 1 March 2013. National of the Czech Republic, elected from list A (competence in criminal law and procedure) on 15 December 2011.
Prior to his election as a Judge at the International Criminal Court in 2011, Judge Fremr served the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as an ad litem judge of the Trial Chamber (2006-2008 and 2010-2012).
After holding several positions within the Czech judicial system (judge of the District Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court in Prague), he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic in 2004. He also represented the Czech Republic as a member of several expert committees of the Council of Europe, focused on the fight against organised crime, corruption, and the agenda of human rights, and was a member of the Consultative Council of European Judges.
Judge Fremr has been active as an educator throughout his career, both as an external teacher of Criminal Law at the Charles University in Prague, and a lecturer at courses for judicial practitioners and judges organized by the Judicial Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic.
He graduated from the Law School of the Charles University in Prague, and obtained his Doctorate of Laws in 1981.
