Sylvia Steiner

Sylvia Steiner
Judge of the International Criminal Court
Assumed office
2003
Nominated by Brazil
Personal details
Born (1953-01-19) 19 January 1953
São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Alma mater University of São Paulo

Sylvia Helena de Figueiredo Steiner (born 1953) is a Brazilian judge who has been a member of the International Criminal Court since 2003.[1]

Career

Steiner graduated from the Law School of University of São Paulo and studied later at the University of Brasília. She acted as Federal Public Prosecutor from 1982 to 1995 in São Paulo. In 1995, she was appointed as a judge of the Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região, a federal court headquartered at São Paulo.

Steiner was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court from 1999 to 2002. She was also a member of the Official Working Group on the Implementation of the Rome Statute in 2003, in Brazil.

Judge of the International Criminal Court, 2003–present

Between 2005 and 2016,[2] Steiner served as the presiding judge of the trial chamber for the case of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the first case in which the ICC has found a high official directly responsible for the crimes of his subordinates, as well as the first to focus primarily on crimes of sexual violence committed in war.[3] As of 2016, she is the longest serving Judge at the ICC.

Other activities

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Bio details, ICC website
  2. ↑ Judge Sylvia Steiner elected Presiding Judge Pre-trial Chamber III International Criminal Court, press release of 4 February 2005.
  3. ↑ Thomas Escritt (March 22, 2016), Congo ex-vice president guilty in landmark ICC war rape ruling Reuters.


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