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Judge sylvia steiner and dip felipe michelini at plenary of the chamber of deputies brazil
Sylvia Helena de Figueiredo Steiner (born 1953) is a Brazilian judge who has been a member of the International Criminal Court since 2003.
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- Judge sylvia steiner and dip felipe michelini at plenary of the chamber of deputies brazil
- Xxix pr mio franz de castro holzwarth sylvia steiner
- Career
- Judge of the International Criminal Court 2003present
- Other activities
- Publications
- References
Xxix pr mio franz de castro holzwarth sylvia steiner
Career
Steiner graduated from the Law School of University of São Paulo and studied later at the University of Brasília. She acted as Federal Public Prosecutor from 1982 to 1995 in São Paulo. In 1995, she was appointed as a judge of the Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região, a federal court headquartered at São Paulo.
Steiner was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court from 1999 to 2002. She was also a member of the Official Working Group on the Implementation of the Rome Statute in 2003, in Brazil.
Judge of the International Criminal Court, 2003–present
Between 2005 and 2016, Steiner served as the presiding judge of the trial chamber for the case of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the first case in which the ICC has found a high official directly responsible for the crimes of his subordinates, as well as the first to focus primarily on crimes of sexual violence committed in war. As of 2016, she is the longest serving Judge at the ICC.