Chung Chang-ho (; born February 17, 1967) is a South Korean judge who has been serving judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), serving since 2015. He is the second South Korean to serve in the chambers of the Court, following former president Song Sang-hyun.[1]
Chung was born on February 17, 1967[2] in South Korea and holds a B.A. in Law and an LL.M. in International Law from Seoul National University. He was a court martial judge in the Republic of Korea Air Force for three years from 1993 to 1996. Chung also served eight years as a district court judge and six years as a high court judge before his mandate at the ECCC. He was a research scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2001 and at the University of Hong Kong in 2005. Chung also served as a legal advisor and the South Korean delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at the South Korean embassy in Vienna, Austria, between 2008 and 2009.[1]
Chung then served as a United Nations International Judge in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 2011 to 2015. There, he was a member of the Rules and Procedure Committee and the Judicial Administration Committee.[3]
Chung was elected to the International Criminal Court from the Asian Group of States, list A, for a term of nine years beginning 11 March 2015 and ending on the same day in 2024.[4] He was assigned to the Pre-Trial Division.[1] In 2021, he was the presiding judge in the proceedings that resulted in Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda being sentenced to pay child soldiers and other victims a total of $30 million compensation, the Court's highest ever reparation order.[5]
Chung has published extensively, the most recent of which was for the Harvard International Law Journal, echoing his long-standing opinion that the Asia-Pacific should move to create a regional court of human rights.
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