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Peter Tomka (born 1 June 1956) is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice.
Peter Tomka is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice.

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Peter Tomka

Slovak judge

Peter Tomka (born 1 June 1956)^[1] is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election to the ICJ in 2003, Tomka was a Slovak diplomat.

Early life and education

Tomka was born in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia.^[1] He earned LLM and PhD degrees from Charles University in Prague in 1979 and 1985 respectively. In addition, he has also undertaken studies at the Faculty of International Law and International Relations in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the Institut du droit de la paix et du développement in Nice, France, at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Greece, and The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.^[1]

Career

In 1986, Tomka joined Czechoslovakia's Foreign Ministry as an assistant legal adviser, and in 1990 was promoted to head of the Ministry's Public International Law Division. The following year, he was transferred to the country's United Nations Mission, where he served as legal adviser. Following the division

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Full Title: Judge Peter Tomka
Category: Honorary Bencher
Bench Call Date: 26.11.2013
Bio:

Dr Peter Tomka, a Slovak national, has been a Member of the International Court of Justice since 6 February 2003. He has served as President of the Court since 6 February 2012 and previously served as its Vice-President from 2009-2012, and as Acting President in the case concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay). President Tomka is also a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.

Prior to serving on the World Court, President Tomka served in a variety of professional and diplomatic capacities, both domestically and internationally, including serving as the Director General for International Legal and Consular Affairs and Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bratislava, Slovakia and as Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations. He is also a Former Member of the United Nations International Law Commission and the Former Chairman of the Committee of Legal Advisers on

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Interview with Peter Tomka, Judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague: The Court is Here to Prevent Conflicts

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Judge Tomka, born in Banská Bystrica, has been a Member of the Court since 2003; Vice-President of the Court from 2009 to 2012; and the President of the Court from 2012 to 2015.

In contentious cases, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) settles legal disputes that are submitted to it by States. The Court can only address a dispute when the States in question have recognised its jurisdiction. No State can therefore be a party to proceedings unless it has consented thereto.[1]

The seat of the Court is the Peace Palace, a beautiful historical building opened in 1913 for the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 1922, it also became the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice and, after the Second World War, the seat of the ICJ. Before we started the interview with Judge Tomka in his office, he kindly offered to show us some of the interior of the Peac