01 October 2024
Judge Joan Donoghue has been appointed vice president of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
She was president of the International Court of Justice from 2021 to 2024, and became an ICJ judge in 2010. Prior to working at The Hague, she advised Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama on diverse matters of international law at the US State Department.
Judge Donoghue also worked at the US Treasury Department, and has been the general counsel of a large US financial institution.
Eve Salomon, chair of trustees, BIICL, described Judge Donoghue as ‘one of the finest public international lawyers of her generation’.
