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Carla Del Ponte

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Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a Swiss former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1999, replacing Louise Arbour. In 2003, the U.N. Security Council removed Del Ponte as the Prosecutor for the ICTR, and replaced her there with Hassan Bubacar Jallow following pressure from Rwanda's president Kagame who was obstructing her efforts to investigate crimes by Tutsi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carla Del Ponte has received more than 251,865 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Carla Del Ponte is the 19th most popular lawyer, the 115th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 123rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Lawyer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Carla Del Ponte ranks 19 out of 136. Before her are Rudolf von Jhering, Leo Frank, Tribonian, Muhammad al-Shaybani, Raphael Lemkin, and Al-Tahawi. After her are Al-Mawardi, John F. Kennedy Jr., Irnerius, Peter Benenson, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, and Helmuth James von Moltke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Carla Del Ponte ranks 75. Before her are Gidon Kremer, Yukio Hatoyama, Peter Sloterdijk, Walter Röhrl, Robert Englund, and Joe Mantegna. After her are Mariska Veres, Viktor Belenko, Anwar Ibrahim, Ljupko Petrović, Dwight Schultz, and Peter Weller.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carla Del Ponte ranks 115 out of 1,015. Before her are Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Jost Bürgi (1552), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), César Ritz (1850), and Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702). After her are Gottfried Keller (1819), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jakob Steiner (1796), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Charles Bonnet (1720), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908).

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Among LAWYERS In Switzerland

Among lawyers born in Switzerland, Carla Del Ponte ranks 2. Before her are Charles Albert Gobat (1843). After her are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808).

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