ABSTRACT: who the other judges of the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia are, apart from the president Antonio Cassese (1)

(L'EUROPEO, 13-20 April 1994)

(2) - The vice president, Elizabeth ODIO BENITO, is minister of justice in her country, Costa Rica, and a university professor of Law. She represents Latin America in the United Nations Fund for torture victims.

(3) - Jules DESCHENCS, 70, Canadian, is a former president of the supreme court of Québec. Author of a dozen books, including one on war criminals. Between 1989 and 1991 he chaired an international committee of investigation on work in Rumania.

(4) - The Egyptian George Michel ABI-SAAB, 60, is of Copt religion. Professor of International Law in Geneva, he has solved various frontier controversies as arbiter of the Court of Justice of The Hague (Lybia/Tchad, Egypt/Israel).

(5) - Adolphus Godwin KARIBI-WHYTE, 62, Nigerian, studied in London, is a judge of the supreme court of Lagos. Author of five books and 52 essays on juridical matters.

(6) - Li HAOPEI, 87, Chinese, is a legal consultant of the ministry of foreign affairs of Peking. Professor of international Law since 1939, he is fluent in nine languages, including Italian and Latin. He translated the papers of the Nuremberg trial into Chinese.

(7) - Gabrielle KIRK MCDONALD, 51, American, former lawyer, judge and professor of Law at the university of Houston (Texas).

(8) - Rustam SIDHWA, 66, Pakistani but not Muslim: he is of Parsi religion (Zoroastrian). Judge of the supreme court of Pakistan, he taught law at the university of Punjab in Lahore. Previously lawyer of the supreme Court.

(9) - Sir Ninian STEPHEN, 70, Australian, judge of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1982. Chairs various Australian governmental bodies, and since 1992 head of the Anglo-Irish committee for negotiations on Ulster.

(10) - Lai Chand VOHRAH, 59, British, Cambridge International law graduate, specialized at the Academy of International Law in The Hague, judge of the Supreme Court of Malaysia.

(11) - Claude JORDA, 56, French, prosecutor general at the Court of appeals of Paris. Previously a high ministerial official and head of the French judicial services. His only problem is he does not speak English.