Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca

Justice Doctor Professor Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca ("née" Inés Mónica Weinberg) is an Argentinian Trial Chamber Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 16, 1948.

Before becoming an international Judge, Justice Weinberg de Roca was a lawyer. She then became a Civil Judge, and later an Appeals Judge at Buenos Aires' Administrative Court. Justice Weinberg de Roca is also a Private international law Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE).

Personal life and education

Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca was born to a middle-class, German Jewish family in Buenos Aires. Her parents fled Germany in the early 1930s because of the Nazi Regime and its antisemitic ideas, although none of them were religious Jews.

She went to St. Peter's School, an English school in a northern Buenos Aires suburb. She holds a Law Degree of the University of Buenos Aires. Her thesis was done at the University of La Plata, in Argentina, and was nominated to the "Premio Facultad" (Faculty Award). The Jury approved it with the "magna cum laude" distinction.

Justice Weinberg de Roca has a Masters Degree in Private International Law, granted by the Max-Planck-Institut of Hamburg, Germany.

She speaks Spanish, English, German and French, is married and has one son.

Lawyer and Judge

Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca worked as an independent lawyer in Buenos Aires, before being appointed National Civil Trial Judge in 1993 by then President Carlos Saúl Menem.

In 2000, she won a contest organized by the Buenos Aires Government and became an Appeals Judge at the newly-created Administrative, Contentious and Tributary Courts ("Tribunales Contenciosos, Administrativos y Tributarios").

International career

Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca served as an Advisor on International Law at the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She represented Argentina at various conferences and symposia and was Argentina's representative at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law.

In 2002, Argentina appointed Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca as its candidate for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She won that positions's election, which was held at the UN General Assembly in January 2003.

On May 26, 2003, Justice Inés Weinberg de Roca sworn in as Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania.

Since the ICTR has two representatives at the shared Appeals Chamber (together with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), Justice Weinberg de Roca was designated as a member of the Appeals Chamber on June 4, 2003, and thus she became a permanent Judge of the ICTY, based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

In the fall of 2005, Justice Inés Weinberg de Roca transferred back to the ICTR and has been Presiding Judge in the trial of Protais Zigiranyirazo, aka “Mr. Z” since October 3 2005.

Useful Links

* [http://www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/factsheets/roca.htm Justice Weinberg de Roca's short CV, in English]
* [http://www.ictr.org/FRENCH/factsheets/rocaf.htm Justice Weinberg de Roca's short CV, in French]
* [http://www.un.org/icty ICTY's official website]
* [http://www.ictr.org ICTR's official website]