Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko

Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko (born 27 November 1941) is a Judge of the International Criminal Court from Uganda. He holds the position of President of the Appeals Chamber.

Education

• 1968 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), University of East Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• 1970 Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.), Howard University
• 1971 Master of Laws (LL.M), New York University School of Law, New York, United States of America
• 1972 Certificate in International Law, Hague Academy of International Law
• 1973 - 1975 Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.), New York University School of Law, New York, United States of America School of Law, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Professional qualifications

• 1972–present Advocate, High Court of Uganda
• 2007 Included on the List of Counsel who are eligible for appointment to represent accused or victims before the International Criminal Court.

Work history

• 1968 Pupil Advocate with Kiwanuka & Co., Advocates, Kampala, Uganda
• 1971 - 1975 Lecturer in Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
• 1975 - 1978 Senior Lecturer in Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
• 1978 - 1982 Full-time private law practice, Kampala, Uganda
• 1983 Social Affairs Officer, United Nations Centre for Development and Humanitarian Affairs, New York, New York
• 1983 - 1984 Expert Consultant, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch of the United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, New York
• 1984 - 1992 Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Botswana
• 1992 - 1996 Associate Professor of Law, University of Botswana
• 1993 - 1994 Walter S. Owen Visiting Professor of Law, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, Vancouver, Canada
• 1996–present Professor of Law, University of Botswana, Gaborone

Publications

Books

• Criminal Law and Procedure in Botswana (Kluwer Law International Publishers, Deventer, Netherlands, 2007) - forthcoming.
• With K. Solo, Legal Ethics in Botswana: Cases and Materials (University of Botswana, Department of Law, Private Bag 0022 Gaborone. 2004. ISBN 99912-949-5-3) [448 pages]
• "Constitutional Law in Botswana", International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Kluwer International Publishers, Deventer, Netherlands. 2002. ISBN 90-6544-944-2). Republished by Pula Press, Gaborone, Botswana, 2002. ISBN 978-99912-61-97-3) [323 pages]
• Criminal Procedure in Botswana: Cases and Materials (3rd) (Pula Press, Gaborone, 2002, ISBN 99912-61-61-3). [506 pages]
• "Criminal Law and Procedure in Uganda" (in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Prof. Dr. L. Dupont and Prof. Dr. C. Fijnaut of Leuven University (eds.), Kluwer Law International Publishers, Deventer, Netherlands. 1996. ISBN 978-90-6544-937-5). [329 pages]
• Eddembe Lyaffe [a treatise written in the Luganda language, literally meaning "Our Rights"; it discusses various aspects of human rights and has four appendices which are translations of key United Nations human rights instruments], (Nabinene Emporium Ltd., P.O. Box 3675 Kampala, Uganda. 1995). Published with the assistance of the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA). [201 pages]
• English — Luganda Law Dictionary (University of Botswana. 1993. ISBN 99912-0-082-7). (Indexed in The African Book Publishing Record, West Sussex, England, 1994). [149 pages]
• Antigone: a Greek Play by Sophocles (a translation into the Luganda language. Marianum Press, Kampala, Uganda. 1989). [63 pages]

Mimeographs

• The International Protection of Refugees (Doctoral dissertation submitted to New York University School of Law, 1975). [379 pages]
• Police Powers and the Rights of the Individual in Uganda (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1973). [134 pages]

Chapters in books

• "Sentencing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia", in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Vol. XV (Intersentia, Antwerp, 2007) - forthcoming.
• "Participation in Crime in Botswana" in Ulrich Sieber (ed.) Participation in Crime: Criminal Liability of Leaders of Criminal Groups and Networks – A Comparative Analysis (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Freiburg.

2007 - forthcoming

• "Expeditious Trial" in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: The Special Court for Sierra Leone, Vol. 9 (Intersentia, Antwerp, 2006. ISBN 978-90-5095-476-1. [at pp. 690–697]
• "Right to Counsel" in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Vol. 8 (Intersentia, Antwerp, 2005. ISBN 90-5095-397-2). [at pp. 375–386]
• "Forcible Transfer of Children" in Shelton, Dinah (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 3 vols. (Detroit, Mich: Macmillan Reference, United States of America, 2005. ISBN 0-02-865847-7). [at pp. 370–376]
• ("The Indictment", in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Vol. 6 (Intersentia, Antwerp, 2003. ISBN 90-5095-319-0). [at pp. 49 – 58]
• "Preliminary Matters: the Indictment", in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Vol. IV (Intersentia, Antwerp, 2002. ISBN 90-5095-213-5). [at pp. 58–68]
• "Social Change and Organised Crime in Southern Africa", in Apollo Rwomire (ed.), Social Problems in Africa (Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut., United States of America, 2001. ISBN 0-275-96343-8). [at pp. 209–228]
• "The African Great Lakes Region and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda", in ELSA (eds.), International Law as we Enter the 21st Century (Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz GmbH, 2001. ISBN 3-8305-0249-4). [at pp. 73–85]
• "The Implementation of the ICC Statute within the Southern African Community (SADC)", in Claus Kress & Flavia Lattanzi (eds.), The Rome Statute and Domestic Legal Orders, Volume I: General Aspects and Constitutional Issues (il Sirente, Fagnano Alto/Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2000. ISBN 978-88-87847-01-7). [at pp. 169–182]
• "Preliminary Rulings Regarding Admissibility", in Otto Triffterer (ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden, Germany, 1999. ISBN 3-7890-6173-5). [at pp. 395–404]
• "Genocide: A Crime Against Mankind", in Gabrielle Kirk McDonald and Olivia Swak-Goldman (eds.), The Law and Enforcement of International Offences – The Experience of International and National Courts (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, Netherlands, 1999. ISBN 90-411-1133-6). [at pp. 113–140]
• "Controlling Executive Power in Southern Africa: the Role of the Courts and Administrative Tribunals", in Hugh Corder and Tiyanjana Maluwa (eds.), Administrative Justice in Southern Africa (University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 1997. ISBN 0-7992-1892-8). [at pp. 95–116]
• "Reparations in the Criminal Law: the Case of Uganda", in Albin Eser and Susanne Walther Wiedergutmachung im Strafrecht: Internationale Perspektiven (edition iuserim, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, 1997. ISBN 3-86113-971-5). [at pp. 319–354]
• "Issues of Implementation and Co-ordination", with Roger Clark, in Yael Danieli, Nigel Rodley and Lars Weisaeth (eds.) International Responses to Traumatic Stress (Baywood Publishing Company, Amityville, N.Y., 1995. ISBN 0-89503-132-9). [at pp. 425–437]
• "Victims of Crime and their Rights", in T.M. Mushanga (ed.) Criminology in Africa, (United Nations International Crime and Justice Research Institute, Rome, 1992. ISBN 978-92-9078-021-2). [at pp. 21–42]
• "The Rights of Children in Botswana", in The Rights of the Child (Initiative Ltd., Nairobi 1989. ISBN 9966-42-001-0). [at pp. 25–31]
• "Human Rights: A Legal Perspective", in D. Rubadiri (ed.), Human Rights and You, (Macmillan Botswana Ltd. 1989. ISBN 0-333-52364-4). [at pp. 11–16]
• "Arbitrary Deprivation of Life: Controls on Permissible Deprivations", in B.G. Ramcharan (ed.) The Right to Life in International Law, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Netherlands, 1985. ISBN 90-247-3074-0). [at pp. 245–283]

Book review

• Review of D. Dyzenhaus, Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1991) 28 Canadian Journal of African Studies 150-153 (1994).

Articles in internationally peer-reviewed journals

• "Bringing Aggressors to Justice: From Nuremberg to Rome" 4 University of Botswana Law Journal, pp. 4–32 (2005).
• "The SADC Protocol against Corruption: Example of the Region's Response to an International Scourge", with Zein Kebonang, 1 University of Botswana Law Journal, pp. 85–119 (2005).
• "Prosecutorial Discretion before National Courts and International Tribunals", 2 Journal of International Criminal Justice, pp. 124–144 (2005).
• "Triggering the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court", 4 African Human Rights Law Journal pp. 256–274 (2004).
• "Defining the Crime of Aggression: An Important Agenda Item for the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court", Acta Juridica Journal, pp. 256– 286 (2003) (University of Cape Town, South Africa).
• "Aggression Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court" 71 The Nordic Journal of International Law, pp. 497–521 (2002).
• "The Ethical Obligations of Counsel in Criminal Proceedings: Representing an Unwilling Client", 12 Criminal Law Forum: An International Journal, pp. 487–507 (2001).
• "Genocidal Conflict and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda", 48 Netherlands International Law Review, pp. 31–65 (2001).
• "Minimum Sentences and their Effect on Judicial Discretion", 31 Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal, pp. 363–384 (1999).
• "Crime Prevention in Southern Africa: A Legal Perspective", 32 The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 247-265 (1999).
• "The International Criminal Court: Jurisdictional and Related Issues", 10 Criminal Law Forum: an International Journal, pp. 87–120 (1999).
• "Police Informers and Agents Provocateurs: Accomplices or Handmaidens of the Law? Perspectives from the Courts of Eastern and Southern Africa" 9 Criminal Law Forum: an International Journal, pp. 151–169 (1998/99).
• "Indigenous Justice Systems: An Eastern African Perspective", 24 Indian Socio-Legal Journal, pp. 23–30 (1998).
• "When Crime Crosses Borders: A Southern African Perspective", 41 Journal of African Law, pp. 192–200 (1997) (University of London).
• "Witchcraft as a Criminal Defence, From Uganda to Canada and Back", 24 Manitoba Law Journal, pp. 38–59 (1996) (University of Manitoba).
• "Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia" 5 Criminal Law Forum: an International Journal, pp. 507–555 (1994). Reprinted as a chapter in Roger Clark and Madeleine Sann (eds.), The Prosecution of International Crimes (Transaction Publishers, Rutgers — The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J., 1996. ISBN 1-56000-269-7). [at pp. 293–341]
• "Victims of Abuse of Power, with Special Reference to Africa" 28 University of British Columbia Law Review, pp. 171–192 (1994). Reprinted in 60 The Review of the International Commission of Jurists, pp. 199–219 (1998).
• "The Poisoned Tree: Responses to Involuntary Confessions in Criminal Proceedings in Botswana, Zambia, and Uganda" 5 African Journal of International & Comparative Law, pp. 609–633 (1993). (London). Reprinted as a chapter in M. Cherif Bassiouni and Ziyad Motala (eds.), The Protection of Human Rights in African Criminal Proceedings (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. 1995). [at 83-102]
• "The Police, Human Rights, and the Constitution: An African Perspective", 15 Human Rights Quarterly, pp. 465–484 (1993) (Johns Hopkins University Press). This article was abstracted in the 1994 International Political Science Abstracts (27 Rue Saint-Gallium, 75341 Paris Cedex 07, France).
• "Religious Liberty and the Law in Botswana Today", 34 Journal of Church and State, pp. 843–862 (1992) (Baylor University).
• "La religion et la loi au Botswana aujourd'hui" 43 Conscience et Liberte, pp. 89–93 (1992) (Bern, Switzerland).
• "Extenuating Circumstances in Capital Offences in Botswana", 2 Criminal Law Forum: an International Journal, pp. 235–268 (1991).
• "Compensating the Victims of Crime in Botswana", 33 Journal of African Law, pp. 157–171 (1989) (University of London).
• "The Right to Legal Representation in Botswana", (1988) Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, pp. 211–227 (Tel Aviv University).
• "Religion, the Law and the State in Africa", 28 Journal of Church and State, pp. 268–287 (1986) (Baylor University).
• "The Right to Return Home in International Law", 21 Indian Journal of International Law', pp. 335–351 (1981).
• "The Nature and Function of Marriage Gifts in Customary African Marriages", 23 American Journal of Comparative Law, pp. 682–704 (1975) (University of California).
• "The Consul as a Defendant: His Amenability to the Jurisdiction of the Receiving State", 15 Indian Journal of International Law', pp. 333–350 (1975).
• "The International Court, Impartiality and Judges Ad Hoc", 13 Indian Journal of International Law', pp. 207–230 (1973). This article was included in J.C. Merrills, A Current Bibliography of International Law, (Butterworths, London, 1978), p. 188.
• "The Tanzania Nationalisation Laws", 3 Eastern African Law Review, pp. 1–23 (1970) (The University of Dar es Salaam).

See also

• International Criminal Court

External links

• Curriculum Vitae at the Wayback Machine (archived October 29, 2007)
• Statement of qualifications at the Wayback Machine (archived October 29, 2007)