Anita Ušacka
| Anita Ušacka | |
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| Judge of the International Criminal Court Appeals Division | |
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Assumed office 11 March 2003 |
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| President of the Appeals Division Judges of the International Criminal Court | |
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In office 1 April 2011 – 30 March 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Akua Kuenyehia |
| Succeeded by | Erkki Kourula |
| Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia | |
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In office 1996–2004 |
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| Personal details | |
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Anita Ušacka April 26, 1952 Riga, Latvia |
| Nationality | Latvian |
| Residence | The Hague, The Netherlands |
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| Profession | Jurist |
Anita Ušacka (born April 26, 1952) is a Latvian and international judge and legal academic. She has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia and of the Trial and Appeals Divisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court in 2011/2012.
Ušacka was born on April 26, 1952 in Riga, Latvia, the only daughter of Arturs Ušackis and Anna Krontāle. She had two elder brothers, Ivars (b. 1944) and Juris (b. 1948). Ušacka has a son, Aleksejs Ušackis, born December 13, 1980.
Ušacka spent her childhood in Riga, Latvia, where she attended primary and secondary schools. She began university studies in 1970, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia, specializing in Legal Sciences. She completed the degree in 1975. Ušacka later attended the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University, where she received a PhD in law (Candidate in Legal Sciences) in 1980. Ušacka’s PhD thesis, which she defended in January that year, concerned legal aspects of the administration of industry in Latvia.
In 1991, Ušacka studied human rights at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. In 1993-1994, she spent a year at the University of Notre Dame studying and conducting research on comparative law and human rights. Following receipt of a fellowship to study comparative criminal law, she spent six months as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany in 1994.
In 2006, Ušacka was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in the United States, where she was the keynote speaker at Lewis & Clark’s 2006 commencement. In her commencement address, she emphasized the importance of establishing a global system on the rule of law and for the protection of human rights.
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