Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE, QC, FBA (Professor of International Law, 1981-1995) was President of the International Court of Justice 2006-2009. After graduating from Cambridge, she obtained a JSD from Yale and worked with leading think tanks. She joined LSE from the University of Kent. In 1984 she joined the UN Committee on Human Rights. While at the Law School she published ‘Problems and Process’ (1994), which discussed the task of identifying applicable norms in international law, and, for her contributions to scholarship, she received in 1998 the prestigious Manley Hudson Medal from the American Society of International Law. Later she obtained many honours and honorary doctorates. Despite her substantial academic commitments, she built up a leading practice in international law. In 1995 she was appointed to the International Court of Justice, where she served for some 14 years, the last three as elected President.