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The eighteen judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are elected for nine-year terms by the member-countries of the court.〔 Candidates must be nationals of those countries and they must "possess the qualifications required in their respective States for appointment to the highest judicial offices".〔 A judge may be disqualified from "any case in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be doubted on any ground",〔 and a judge may be removed from office if he or she "is found to have committed serious misconduct or a serious breach of his or her duties" or is unable to exercise his or her functions.〔 The judges are organized into three divisions: the Pre-Trial Division, Trial Division and Appeals Division.〔 ==Qualifications, election and terms== Judges are elected to the ICC by the Assembly of States Parties, the court's governing body.〔 They serve nine-year terms〔 and are not generally eligible for re-election.〔(Article 36, paragraph 9 ), of the Rome Statute provides for two circumstances under which judges may be re-elected. Firstly, the six judges who were elected to three-year terms in 2003 were eligible for re-election in 2006. Secondly, any judge elected to fill a vacancy serves the remainder of his predecessor's term; if the remainder of the term is less than three years, the judge can subsequently be re-elected to a second term. (For example, Fumiko Saiga was elected in December 2007 to serve the remainder of Claude Jorda's term. Since Jorda's term expired in March 2009, Saiga was eligible for re-election. See International Criminal Court (28 November 2007). . Accessed 18 January 2008.)〕 All judges must be nationals of states parties to the Rome Statute, and no two judges may be nationals of the same state.〔(Article 36 ) of the Rome Statute. Accessed 28 January 2008.〕 They must be “persons of high moral character, impartiality and integrity who possess the qualifications required in their respective States for appointment to the highest judicial offices”,〔 and they must "have an excellent knowledge of and be fluent in at least one of the working languages of the Court" (English and French).〔 Judges are elected from two lists of candidates. List A comprises candidates who have "established competence in criminal law and procedure, and the necessary relevant experience, whether as judge, prosecutor, advocate or in other similar capacity, in criminal proceedings".〔 List B comprises candidates who have "established competence in relevant areas of international law such as international humanitarian law and the law of human rights, and extensive experience in a professional legal capacity which is of relevance to the judicial work of the Court".〔 Elections are organised so that there are always at least nine serving judges from List A and at least five from List B.〔〔International Criminal Court (10 September 2004). . Accessed 16 October 2007.〕 The Assembly of States Parties is required to "take into account the need for the representation of the principal legal systems of the world, equitable geographical representation and a fair representation of female and male judges. They shall take into account the need to include judges with legal expertise on specific issues, including, but not limited to, violence against women and children."〔 Thus, there are voting requirements established which require at least six judges to be female and at least six to be male. Additionally, each regional group of the United Nations has at least two judges. If a regional group has more than sixteen states parties this leads to a minimum voting requirement of three judges from this regional group. Therefore, from the Statute's entry into force for the Maldives on 1 December 2011, all regional groups can claim a third judge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judges of the International Criminal Court」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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