Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca | |
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| Minister of the Superior Tribunal of Justice of theCity of Buenos Aires | |
| Assumed office 1 June 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Julio Maier |
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| Born | Inés Mónica Weinberg (1948-12-16)16 December 1948 (age 77) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
JusticeInés Mónica Weinberg de Roca (néeInés Mónica Weinberg) is anArgentine Judge of the Supreme Court ofcity of Buenos Aires and a Judge of theUnited Nations Appeals Tribunal inNew York City. She was born inBuenos Aires,Argentina on December 16, 1948.
From 2003 to 2008 she was a Judge of theInternational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, serving the joint Appeal Chamber of the ICTR and theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia inThe Hague from 2003 to 2005, and on the trial chamber inArusha,Tanzania from 2005 to 2008.
Before becoming an international Judge, Justice Weinberg de Roca was alawyer. She then became aCivil Judge, and later an Appeals Judge atBuenos Aires' Administrative Court. Justice Weinberg de Roca is also aPrivate international law Professor at theUniversity of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at theUniversidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE).
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca was born to a middle class,GermanJewish family inBuenos Aires. Her parents fled Germany in the early 1930s because ofnazism, although none of them were religious Jews.
She attended St Peter's School, an English school in a northern Buenos Aires suburb. She holds a law degree of theUniversity of Buenos Aires and aJuris Doctor from theNational University of La Plata, in Argentina. Her doctoral thesis was nominated to thePremio Facultad (Faculty Award). The jury approved it with themagna cum laude distinction.
Justice Weinberg de Roca was a researcher in Private International Law at theMax-Planck-Institut ofHamburg, Germany (1972-1973).
She speaks Spanish, English, German and French. She was married to diplomatEduardo A. Roca (1921–2019), who was Argentina's ambassador to theUnited Nations during the country'slast military dictatorship (1976–1983) and to theUnited States and theOAS during the military dictatorship ofJuan Carlos Onganía (1966–1970).[1]
Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca worked as an independent lawyer in Buenos Aires, before being appointed a civil judge in Buenos Aires in 1993.
In 2000, she was selected as an appeals judge at the newly created Administrative and Tax Courts (Tribunales Contencioso Administrativos y Tributarios).
In 2013 Justice Weinberg de Roca was appointed a Justice at the Supreme Court of Buenos Aires.
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca served as an Advisor onInternational Law at the ArgentineMinistry of Foreign Affairs. She representedArgentina at various conferences and symposia and was Argentina's representative at theInternational Institute for the Unification of Private Law.
In 2002, Argentina appointed Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca as its candidate for theInternational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). She won that position's election, which was held at theUN General Assembly in January 2003.
On May 26, 2003, Justice Inés Weinberg de Roca sworn in as Judge of the ICTR, based inArusha, Tanzania.
Since the ICTR has two representatives at the shared Appeals Chamber (together with theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)), Justice Weinberg de Roca was designated as a member of the Appeals Chamber on June 4, 2003, and thus she became a permanent Judge of the ICTY, based in The Hague, Netherlands.
In the fall of 2005, Justice Inés Weinberg de Roca transferred back to the ICTR and was the Presiding Judge in the trials of, among others,Protais Zigiranyirazo, known as “Mr. Z”, andSimon Bikindi. In December 2008 she delivered the judgments in the cases of Bikindi and Zigiranyirazo.
In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly appointed Justice Weinberg de Roca as a judge of theUnited Nations Appeals Tribunal for the 2009-2016 period. She was the first President of the Tribunal (2009-2010). However, in November 2009 her conviction of Zigiranyirazo was overturned by the Appeal Chamber of the ICTR, which acquitted him on all charges and found that Weinberg de Roca had made serious errors[2] and that there had been amiscarriage of justice.[3] This came as a severe blow to her international credibility.