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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]

Ad Hoc Judge

Bruno Simma, Jan Ortgies

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]
Article last updated:
January 2019

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 19 September 2024

Subject(s):
Joinder of cases and proceedings — Judges

Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.

1 A judge ad hoc is a judge appointed by a special procedure for a specific project, case, or period only—as opposed to, and in contrast to, a regular judge, appointed through a regular procedure for a regular period of time. A court or tribunal without regular judges cannot, by definition, have ad hoc judges. 2 As an additional defining characteristic, a judge ad hoc in an international law context would normally be appointed by a party to a case which would otherwise not have a judge of its choice or nationality on the bench. 3 Judges ad hoc were for the first...
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