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Judges and Judiciary

Nov. 12, 2011

A window into international law

Internatonal Court of Justice Judge Joan Donohue sees an important part of her role as educating the legal community and the general public on how the World Court functions and what kinds of cases and issues it considers.


By Susan McRae


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The International Court of Justice at The Hague doesn't spark the kind of recognition and controversy of its criminal tribunal counterparts. Yet it's managed to draw its own brand of notoriety from critics - some who say it overreaches its authority and others who say it's powerless to enforce it.


Judge Joan E. Donoghue - the court's newest and only American judge and third woman to sit...

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