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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade ( – ) was a Brazilian jurist and international judge. He was appointed as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 6 February 2009. He was reelected to the Court in December 2017, and took office for his second term on 6 February 2018, serving until his death in 2022.

Before joining the ICJ, Cançado Trindade was a judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1994 to 2006. He completed two terms as its president from 1999 to 2004.

Cançado Trindade was also a prominent scholar and prolific writer. Most recently, he was a professor at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). Provided by Wikipedia