JUDGES from Romania

1. Bogdan Aurescu (b. 1973)

With an HPI of 43.49, Bogdan Aurescu is the most famous Romanian Judge.  His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.

Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his swearing-in on 6 February 2024, Aurescu was a diplomat, law professor and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between 4 November 2019 and 15 June 2023 under prime ministers: Ludovic Orban, Florin Cîțu and Nicolae Ciucă. He also held that position between 24 November 2014 and 17 November 2015 under prime minister Victor Ponta. He also held the position of Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019 and Secretary of State in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs (2009–2010, 2012–2014), Secretary of State for European Affairs (2004–2005, 2010–2012) and Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2012). Between 2004 and 2009, Aurescu was his country's chief counsel in the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute with Ukraine that Romania brought before the International Court of Justice. Between 2010 and 2011, he was the head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiations on the Romanian-American Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, and of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and USA. In November 2016, he was elected by the United Nations General Assembly as a member of the UN International Law Commission for a five years mandate (2017–2021). On 9 November 2023, at the 2023 International Court of Justice judges election, Aurescu was elected as the Eastern European representative at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He received the votes of 117 UN General Assembly members, beating Russia's representative Kirill Gevorgian, who received the votes of 77. This marked the first time that Russia would not be represented at the Court. He is also a Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, having started his teaching activity in 1998.