Have a look at the bio, husband, religion and salary of Julia Sebutinde
Julia Sebutinde is an ICJ judge from Uganda. She was re-elected on November 12, 2020, and is currently serving her second term on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with her set to take up the presidency soon.
Pro-Israel Judge Julia Sebutinde will take over as president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which will be a major change for the court and another milestone in her innovative career.
After incumbent President Nawaf Salam leaves to establish Lebanon’s next government, the Ugandan Christian judge, who recently garnered attention for her strong defence of Israel against South Africa’s genocide accusations, will assume leadership.
Who is pro-Israel Judge Julia Sebutinde next ICJ President, biography, age, husband, children, education, religion and salary
Do you remember the ICJ’ Ugandan judge Julia Sebutinde, who oddly voted against all ICJ’s measures to prevent genocide in Gaza?
She’s about to become the head of ICJ following the current head’s departure (became Lebanon’s PM) 🙄
This is bad, bad. Even Uganda disowned her. pic.twitter.com/OnGliJhhct
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Judge Julia Sebutinde was born in February 1954 in Kampala, Uganda, to a a civil servant and housewife mother with the last name Semambo in a Christian family. In the 1960s, she went to Entebbe’s Lake Victoria Primary School.
After attending Gayaza High School and King’s College Budo, she enrolled at Makerere University to pursue a legal education. In 1977, Sebutinde earned a Bachelor of Laws degree. In 1978, she graduated with a Diploma in Legal Practice from Kampala’s Law Development Centre and not long after obtaining her undergraduate degree, she gained a post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre in Uganda.
She began her Master of Laws studies at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Law School in 1990 and completed it in 1991. The University of Edinburgh granted her an honorary doctor of laws in 2009 in appreciation of her body of work and contributions to international justice.
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After Sebutinde graduated from Edinburgh in 1991, she worked in the UK for the Ministry of Commonwealth, and not long after, she joined the Ministry of Justice in the Republic of Namibia.
John Bagunywa Sebutinde and Julia Sebutinde are married and have two daughters together.
Judge Sebutinde’s has links to the Ugandan Pentecostal tradition in general, and the Watoto Church (formerly Kampala Pentecostal Church).
Judge Julia Sebutinde career
From 1978 till 1990, Julia Sebutinde was employed by the Ugandan government in the Ministry of Justice. She worked in the United Kingdom’s Ministry of the Commonwealth after earning her degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1991.
Julia Sebutinde joined the United Nations-established Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2005 after being seconded by the Ugandan government. Later on, she was named the Presiding Judge in Courtroom II, which at the time was in charge of hearing the case against Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia. She declined to go to a disciplinary hearing against Taylor’s attorney while she was in that role.
Remember International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judge Julia Sebutinde? The only non-Israeli judge who voted against orders for Israel to restrain its genocidal war in Gaza in Gaza is now set to become the new president of the ICJ. Read on. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/MsviNK8ljC
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Julia Sebutinde was one of 17 judges who decided on interim measures in South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide. She was the only permanent judge to vote against any of the measures, and she opposed all of the provisional ones.
According to her minority view, there was no reasonable foundation for concluding that Israel had genocidal intent and that the argument in question was fundamentally political rather than legal.
In a subsequent statement, the Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Sebutinde’s vote “does not in any way, reflect the position of the Government of the Republic of Uganda” and that it agreed with South Africa’s stance.
Julia’s salary when she takes over the presidency is set to go up as the President of the ICJ receives a special supplementary allowance of US$25,000 per annum, in addition to his/her annual salary. Members of the ICJ receive an annual salary of $191,263, with a $25,000 bonus for the president.