Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Géza Herczegh | |
Native Name Lang: | hu |
Office: | Judge of the International Court of Justice |
Term Start: | 1 May 1993 |
Term End: | 6 February 2003 |
Predecessor: | Manfred Lachs |
Successor: | Peter Tomka |
Birth Date: | 17 October 1928 |
Birth Place: | Veľké Kapušany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
Death Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Nationality: | Hungarian |
Géza Herczegh (17 October 1928 - 11 January 2010) was a Hungarian judge and academic. In 1990, Herczegh was appointed to the Constitutional Court of Hungary.[1] From 1993 to 2003, he was unanimously elected by the United Nations to one of the International Court of Justice, succeeding Manfred Lachs.[2] He filled the remaining year of Lachs' nine-year term and was re-elected to a full term in 1994. In 2003, he was succeeded by Peter Tomka.[3] His daughter, Judge Anita Herczegh, is married to János Áder, former President of Hungary.[4] His successor at the ICJ, Tomka, described him as "a dedicated and open-minded judge interested in finding areas of consensus."[5]