A Conversation with Joan Donoghue, former President of the International Court of Justice

Drawing on her years of experience on the International Court of Justice, including three years as the President of the Court, Judge Joan Donoghue will engage in a conversation with Professor Dapo Akande, the Chichele Professor of Public International Law, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC).

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Joan Donoghue was a Judge on the International Court of Justice from 2010 to 2024 and served as its President from 2021 to 2024. She joined the Court after a career at the U.S. State Department, where she was the senior career attorney from 2007 to 2010.  Over about twenty years at the State Department, her work spanned diverse topics in public international law. She also served as the Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999-2000) and as General Counsel of a financial services company (2003-2005).  Judge Donoghue has been a member of investor-State arbitral tribunals and annulment committees. She has taught courses in international law at several law schools and in the training programme of the United Nations.  She currently serves as Honorary President of the American Society of International Law.