Justice Hassan B. Jallow
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Justice Hassan B. Jallow, born in The Gambia in 1950, has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) since September 2003.
Prior to his appointment to the ICTR, Justice Jallow was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2002. He was also a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal and has served the Commonwealth in various capacities, including chairing the Governmental Working Group of Experts in Human Rights.
From 1984 to 1994, Justice Jallow served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of The Gambia and subsequently was a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1998 to 2002. In 1998, he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to serve as an international legal expert to carry out an evaluation of the ICTR and the International Court for the Former Yugoslavia. He has served as a legal expert for the Organisation of African Unity, working on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights which was adopted in 1981.
He worked as State Attorney in the Attorney General’s Chambers in The Gambia from 1976 until 1982 when he was appointed Solicitor General. Justice Jallow studied law at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (1973), the Nigerian Law School (1976) and the University College, London (1978).
He has been awarded the honour of Commander of the National Order of the Republic of The Gambia.