Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Cançado Trindade at a committee of the Brazilian Senate in 2008
Judge on the International Court of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 February 2009
Personal details
Born	(1947-09-17) 17 September 1947 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Alma mater	University of Brasilia University of Cambridge Federal University of Minas Gerais

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (born (1947-09-17)17 September 1947) is a Brazilian judge on the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands, a position he has held since 6 February 2009. Cançado Trindade is a professor at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights(SIM )

Education and career

His professional appointments and academic titles include:

• Professor (Full Professor/Professor Titular) of International Relations and International Law at the University of Brasilia (since 1978) and at the Diplomatic Academy Rio Branco of Brazil (since 1979).
• LL.D. in International Law (1977), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, with the thesis on “Developments in the Rule of Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Law”.
• LL.M. in International Law, University of Cambridge (1973)
• LL.B. in Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais (First Prize in Civil Law, 1969)

Cançado Trindade has been a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law, the OAS Inter-American Juridical Committee’s Courses, the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica). He has been a visiting professor at various universities, among them Columbia University (1st semester 1998) and Institute of Higher International Studies (Panthéon-Assas University, sessions of 1988-1989). He is currently a member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law.

Prior to his appointment to the World Court, he was president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and has had several positions in important international organizations. Cançado Trindade is the author of 52 books and around 680 monographs, contributions to books, essays and articles on international law, published in numerous countries and several languages.

Academic Recognitions

• Yorke Prize, for Ph.D. Thesis in International Law (1977), University of Cambridge, U.K., with thesis on “Developments in the Rule of Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Law”;
• Honours, International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France (1988);
• Honours, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica (1997);
• Honours, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1999); and University of Brasilia, Brazil (1999); and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2002);
• Professor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (2001);
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Central University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (2003);
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru (2003);
• Prize “Isidro Fabela”, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (2003);
• Doctor Honoris Causa, American University of Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay, (2004);
• Prize “Pontes de Miranda”, Brazilian Academy of Judicial Letters (2004);
• Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia (2005);
• Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina (2005);
• Annual Award of 2007 of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), Washington D.C., (2007);
• “W. Friedmann Memorial Award”, Columbia University, New York, (2008);
• Jurist of the Centenary of Hélder Câmara, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2009);
• Emeritus Professor of International Law of the University of Brasília, Brazil (2010);
• Honorary Professor of International Law (Chair in International Tribunals), Utrecht University (2010);
• Honorary Fellow, University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College, 2011);
• National Prize of Human Rights, Brasília, Brazil (2011);
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University Panteion of Athens, Greece (2014);
• Prize of the Association of Magistrates of Brazil (Amagis, 2014).

Apart from his native Portuguese, he is fluent in French, Spanish, and English, and understands German and Italian. ).

Lectures

• The Access of Individuals to International Justice in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• The Contribution of Latin American Doctrine to the Development of International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• General Principles of Law as a Source of International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• The Human Person and International Justice in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• Jus Cogens in Contemporary International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• The Law of International Institutions in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• La expansión de la jurisdicción internacional y su importancia para la realización de la justicia in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

Further reading

• Introductory note on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

References

• International Court of Justice - http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/files/5/14865.pdf