Hassan Bubacar Jallow

Hassan Bubacar Jallow (born 1951) is a Gambian lawyer, politician, and jurist and has been the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) since 2003.

Jallow studied law at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the Nigerian Law School, and University College London. In 1982, he was appointed the Solicitor General of the Gambia. He was Attorney General and Minister of Justice for the Gambia from 1984 to 1994, and in 1998 he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia.

In 1998, the United Nations Secretary-General appointed Jallow to serve as an international legal expert and carry out a judicial evaluation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia.

Jallow was a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal and in 2002 he became a judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In 2003, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan selected Jallow and the United Nations Security Council approved him as the prosecutor of the ICTR, succeeding Carla Del Ponte. Jallow is the first ICTR prosecutor to not also be the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

He was awarded the honour of Commander of the National Order of the Gambia.

Jallow was also an author. His most notable work was :

• The Law of the African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People's Rights. Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1-4251-1418-0

Fair Trial in International Criminal Justice in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law