Dame Rosalyn Higgins

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Dame Rosalyn Higgins, former President of the International Court of Justice

• 1937: Born 2nd June, Kensington, London, neé Cohen
• 1948-56: Burlington Grammar School
• 1956-59: Girton College, Cambridge LLB
• 1958: UK Intern, UN Office of Legal Affairs
• 1959-61: Commonwealth Fellow, Yale Law School
• 1960: Brooking Institute Washington
• 1961: Married Terrence Langley Higgins, later Baron Higgins of Worthing, KBE
• 1961-63: Post-Doctoral Fellow, London School of Economics
• 1962: JSD Yale
• 1963-74: Staff Specialist in International Law, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
• 1972-74: Vice-President American Society of International Law
• 1974-78: Fellow, LSE, International Relations Department
• 1976: Called to the Bar
• 1978-81: Professor of International Law, University of Kent
• 1981-95: Professor of International Law, LSE
• 1984-95: Member, UN Committee on Human Rights
• 1986: Queen’s Councel
• 1989: Bencher, Inner Temple
• 1991: Hague Lecturer
• 1995: Dame Commander of the British Empire - DBE
• 1995-2006: Judge, International Court of Justice
• 2006-09: President, ICJ

Honorary doctorates, prizes include

• 1980:  Dr hc Univ. of Paris XI
• 1998:  Manley Hudson Medal
• 1988:  Membre de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France)
• 1995:  Hon. LLD, LSE
• 1996:  Hon LLD, Cambridge
• 2002:  Hon. DCL Oxford
• 2007:  Balzan Prize, International. Balzan Foundation
• 2011:  The Hague Prize