Date of initial election to the judicial roster: 20 December 2011
Current term: 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2026
Judge Alphons Orie has been a Judge of the Mechanism since it commenced operations in July 2012. In this capacity, he has adjudicated a variety of matters as a Single Judge, and as a member of the Appeals Chamber, including in the Fatuma et al. contempt case.
From 2001 until 2017, Judge Orie served as a Judge of the ICTY. As the Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber I, Judge Orie presided over the Galić, Gotovina et al., Krajišnik, Mladić, and Stanišić & Simatović trials. He was a member of the Rules Committee of the ICTY and the ICTY Bureau throughout his time at the Tribunal.
Alongside his duties at the Mechanism and ICTY, Judge Orie has served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2014-2020) and as President of the Disciplinary Appeals Board of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2015-2017).
Earlier in his career, Judge Orie held several positions within the Dutch judiciary, serving as Justice of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (1997-2001), Crown Appointed Judge in the Disciplinary Court of Appeal for the Dutch Bar (1997-2001), and Subsidiary Judge of the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam (1994-1997). He was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in 1980. As a partner in the law firm Wladimiroff & Spong, The Hague, he specialised in criminal and international criminal law cases, and was assigned as Defence Counsel before the ICTY (1995-1997). Judge Orie has also advised the Dutch government on numerous matters, including the establishment of the International Criminal Court. Previously, he was a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Leiden (1971-1980).
Judge Orie holds a master's degree in law from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (1971), and subsequently undertook a postgraduate course in European Criminal Law at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2008 and is also a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2015). Judge Orie is fluent in English, French, Dutch and German.