1. Theodor Meron served as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
29 Facts About Theodor Meron
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Theodor Meron served as President of the ICTY four times and inaugural President of the Mechanism for three terms.
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Theodor Meron was held in a Nazi labor camp during World War II.
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Theodor Meron immigrated to the United States in 1978 and is a citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Theodor Meron is a scholar of public international law, international humanitarian law, human rights and international criminal law.
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Theodor Meron has been a visiting professor at Oxford University since 2014, a visiting fellow at Mansfield College, and an academic associate at the Bonavero Human Rights Institute.
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Theodor Meron served on several committees of experts of the ICRC, on Internal Strife, on Environment and Armed Conflicts, and on Customary Rules of International Humanitarian Law.
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Theodor Meron is a member of the Institute of International Law and the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Honorary President of the American Society of International Law.
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Theodor Meron has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law.
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Theodor Meron was awarded the 2005 Rule of Law Award by the International Bar Association and the 2006 Manley O Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law.
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Theodor Meron was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic in 2007.
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Theodor Meron received the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for 2008.
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In 2009, Theodor Meron was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Theodor Meron was awarded a LLD honoris causa by the University of Warsaw in 2011 and LLD honoris causa by the University of Calisia, in 2021, and in 2017 he was made Officer of the Order of Merit of Poland.
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Theodor Meron was named "Grand Officier" of the National Order of Merit by the President of France in 2014.
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In 2024, Theodor Meron was part of an expert panel that recommended ICC chief prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza war.
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Theodor Meron's memo concluded that creating this new settlement in the Occupied Territories would be a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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Fifty years later, in 2017, Theodor Meron, citing decades of legal scholarship on the subject, reiterated his legal opinion regarding the illegality of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories.
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Judge Theodor Meron presided over the Appeals Chamber in the case of Radislav Krstic which confirmed that systematic murder of over 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica constituted genocide.
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Theodor Meron visited the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in 2004 and stated:.
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In June 2013, Judge Frederik Harhoff of Denmark, a judge at the ICTY, circulated a letter saying that Theodor Meron had pressured other judges into acquitting Serb and Croat commanders.
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The letter claimed Theodor Meron had raised the degree of responsibility that senior military leaders should bear for war crimes committed by their subordinates, to the point where a conviction has become nearly impossible.
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Theodor Meron was one of 8 judges called upon by ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to provide advice on whether to provide arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders on charges of war crimes in May of 2024.
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Theodor Meron has given numerous public lectures, a TEDx talk and public interviews.
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In 2019, Theodor Meron was appointed Honorary Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for services to criminal justice and international humanitarian law.
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Theodor Meron is an officer of the French Legion of Honour, a Grand Officer of the French National Order of Merit and Officer of the Polish Order of Merit.
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Theodor Meron has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warsaw and Calisia.
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Theodor Meron is among the editors of Humanizing the Laws of War: Selected Writings of Richard Baxter.
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Theodor Meron has published well over 100 articles in various legal periodicals.