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
In office 6 February 2009 – 29 May 2022
Preceded by	Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren
Succeeded by	Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant
Personal details
Born	(1947-09-17)17 September 1947 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died	29 May 2022(2022-05-29) (aged 74) Brasília, Brazil
Alma mater	Federal University of Minas Gerais (LL.B.) University of Cambridge (LL.M., LL.D.)

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade ((1947-09-17)17 September 1947 – (2022-05-29)29 May 2022) was a Brazilian jurist and international judge. He was appointed as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 6 February 2009.^[1] He was reelected to the Court in December 2017, and took office for his second term on 6 February 2018, serving until his death in 2022.^[2]

Before joining the ICJ, Cançado Trindade was a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1994 to 2006. He completed two terms as its president from 1999 to 2004.

Cançado Trindade was also a prominent scholar and prolific writer. Most recently, he was a professor at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM).

Education and career

Trindade's 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 a 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 also served as a lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law, the international law courses of the OAS's Inter-American Juridical Committee, the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica). He was 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 was a member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law until his death.

Prior to his appointment to the World Court, he served as a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1994 to 2008, including two terms as its president from 1999 to 2004, and had held several positions in important international organizations.^[3] Cançado Trindade was 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 a 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)
• Isidro Fabela Prize, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (2003)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, American University of Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay, (2004)
• Pontes de Miranda Prize, 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., United States (2007)
• W. Friedmann Memorial Award, Columbia University, New York, United States (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, Netherlands (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)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India (2017)

Apart from his native Portuguese, he was fluent in French, Spanish, and English, and understood German and Italian.^[4]

Notes

Lectures

• La perennidad del legado de los “Padres Fundadores” del derecho internacional in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• La persona humana en el contencioso interestatal ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• Le système interaméricain de protection des droits de l'homme in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• The Founding Fathers of International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• L’humanisation du droit international 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
• 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 - https://web.archive.org/web/20090106154741/http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/files/5/14865.pdf