International Judicial Monitor
Published by the International Judicial Academy, Washington, D.C., with assistance from the
American Society of International Law
Spring 2015 Issue
 

Justice In Profile

 

Hassan Bubacar Jallow
(The Gambia)
Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Prosecutor, International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Hassan Bubacar Jallow

In the late 1990s there was a need at the United Nations for a thorough report to the U.N. on the work and activities of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. As a result the then U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, appointed Justice Hassam Bubacar Jallow from The Gambia to serve as an international jurist to carry out a judicial evaluation of the two tribunals. At that time Justice Jallow was Minister of Justice of his country. Prior to this appointment Justice Jallow had already had a distinguished legal career. He had served as a legal advisor for the Organization of African Unity and helped prepare for and draft the African Charter of Human and People’s Rights.

Justice Jallow has also rendered distinguished service in other capacities for his country and for international justice: as a justice of The Gambia’s Supreme Court; as Chair of the Governmental Work Group of Experts in Human Rights; as a Judge on the Appeals Chamber of

  

the Special Court For Sierra Leone (international) and as a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal.

His most recent appointment, in 2012, was by the United Nations Security Council, as chief prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, a body that is responsible for winding down the activities and affairs of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Justice Jallow was born in The Gambia in 1950. He studied law at the University of Dar Es Salaam Law School in Tanzania, at the Nigerian Law School, and at University College, London. Upon completion of his legal studies he worked in the Chambers of the Attorney General of The Gambia, and as his country’s Solicitor General. He is the author of four books on law and human rights, and was honored by his country by being made Commander of the National Order of the Republic of Gambia.

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