Wolfgang Schomburg (born 9 April 1948 in Berlin[1]) was the first German Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
[1] In 2007 he resigned from the bench of the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY, asserting the trial could no longer be fair given that the defendant was representing himself without the assistance of a lawyer.
[1] He is editor of the German leading commentary on "International Cooperation in Criminal Matters", currently 4th ed.
He is member of the Board of Directors of the AIDP (Pau/Paris), ERA, Trier, and the MPI, Freiburg.
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