A Legal Journey through the UN, Academia, and the ICJ: Conversations with Dame Rosalyn Higgins DBE, JSD, FBA, QC

8 Pages Posted: 18 Apr 2018

Date Written: June 26, 2014

Abstract

In 2006 Dame Rosalyn Higgins became the first woman to achieve the most prestigious legal position in the world, President of the International Court of Justice. She retired from the position in 2009, and I had the pleasure of interviewing her in her home in Piccadilly in March 2014. The transcript and audio record of that meeting forms the basis for the Squire Law Library tribute to Dame Rosalyn on the Eminent Scholars Archive. The tribute also contains a summary biography of Dame Rosalyn’s career, presented in a chronological format. I prefaced this with the comment that her “remarkable trajectory [was] testament to a combination of dedicated effort, dogged adherence to espoused beliefs,… scholarly insights into the complex legal and political interactions that drove the UN’s making of international law in its early decades … and her mastery of constructive engagement with a wide range of colleagues…. ” In this article, I would like to illustrate these aspects of Dame Rosalyn’s career in more detail.

Keywords: Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Oral History Project, International Law, Human Rights, ICJ, United Nations, Peace Keeping, Chatham House

Suggested Citation

Dingle, Lesley, A Legal Journey through the UN, Academia, and the ICJ: Conversations with Dame Rosalyn Higgins DBE, JSD, FBA, QC (June 26, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3154328 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3154328

Lesley Dingle (Contact Author)

University of Cambridge ( email )

10 West Rd
Cambridge, CB3 9DZ
United Kingdom

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