Georg Nolte

Georg Nolte (born 3 October 1959) is a German jurist and Judge of the International Court of Justice.

In November 2020 he was elected Judge of the International Court of Justice by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council, and he took office on 6 February 2021.

From 2004 to 2008 he held the chair in public international law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, in succession to Bruno Simma.

In 2008 he succeeded Christian Tomuschat as holder of the chair of public international law at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Nolte wrote in the foreword that the prospect of establishing European armed forces required a better understanding of the national military legal systems of the member states.