Pedro Rubens David



Pedro R. David (21 July 1929 – 19 January 2022) was an Argentine magistrate.

David was born in Villa Clodomiro Hileret, Tucumán, Argentina on 21 July 1929. He was first deputy-president of Courtroom II of the Federal Court of Criminal Appeals (Cámara de Casación). David is a lawyer (UNT – University of Tucumán), doctor in sociology (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), doctor in law and social sciences (UNT) and doctor in political sciences (UK –University John F. Kennedy). He was also a judge Ad-Litem at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The Netherlands, and he specialized in research areas, such as crime prevention, victimology and corruption. He founded the University John F. Kennedy and held positions in various universities here: Buenos Aires University, University John F. Kennedy, University of Morón, National University of Salta and National University of Tucumán, and abroad: The University of Hull (England), State University of New Mexico and the University of Zulia (Venezuela). David wrote 18 books and published almost 100 articles. He died on 19 January 2022, at the age of 92.

Biography
Born in 1929 in the province of Tucumán. Age 20 he graduated magna cum laude from the School of Law of the university located in his birthplace. He did a postgraduate in Law by the National University of Tucumán, another doctorate in Sociology by Indiana University set in the United States and another in Political Sciences by the John F. Kennedy University. David was one of the founders of University John F. Kennedy and held many academic positions at the National University of Salta, the National University of Tucumán, the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Morón, the University of New Mexico, the State University of Mexico and Indiana University, United States.

Background
Former assistant district attorney, advocate for minors, judge of the Labor Appeal Court and judge of the Honorable Supreme Court of Justice of Salta.2. In 1974 he was judge of the National Criminal and Correctional Court of Appeals of Buenos Aires.

From 2005 to 2011, he was judge at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague. He was an advisor at the UN to evaluate the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 2 In 2012 he was appointed President of the Federal Court of Criminal Appeals (Casación). He has been judge of the Federal Court of Criminal Appeals (Casación) since its creation in 1992. He has wide experience in topics related to criminal law, victimology and corruption. He has been a judge in the trials of crimes against humanity during the Argentinian military dictatorship of 1976. His work is quoted in bibliography of the matter as relevant. He is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.