Erik Møse

Erik Møse (born 9 October 1950) is a Norwegian judge. Møse has been a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Supreme Court of Norway, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). At the ICTR, he served as Vice President^[1] and later President.^[2] Having retired from his judicial career, he is currently serving as Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.^[3]

Møse graduated from the University of Oslo and had post-graduate studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Beginning in 1981, he taught at the University of Oslo. He then became a Fellow at the University of Essex in England^[1] and subsequently an Honorary Doctor.^{[citation needed]}

Møse has published extensively in the field of human rights. He led the committee that published the Norwegian Official Report 1993:18 on human rights.^[4]

Møse was head of department in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police until 1986; deputy judge, Supreme Court advocate at the Solicitor General's Office from 1986 to 1993; and presiding judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal in Oslo from 1993 to 1999.^[1]

Møse became Vice President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 1999,^[1] then President in 2003,^[2] succeeding Navanethem Pillay.^[5]

Møse was President of the ICTR from 2003^[2] to 2007. As of 2009^[update], he was the Presiding Judge in Trial Chamber I of the ICTR.^[6]

In 2008 he was named as a Supreme Court Justice of Norway. In 2011 he was elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights. He resumed his Supreme Court chair in 2018.^[4][7]

Møse is married and has two children, who both attended International School Moshi Arusha Campus and International School Moshi.^{[citation needed]}

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