Philippe Kirsch OC QC (born April 1 1947) is a Canadian lawyer who served as a judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2009 and was the Court’s first president.Kirsch was born in Belgium in 1947 and arrived in Canada in 1961. Kirsch holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LL.M. degree from the Université de Montréal (1972).Kirsch is member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and of the Canadian Council on International Law and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1988.
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