From 1994 to October 2003 Richard J Goldstone was a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was the first Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In 1999 and 2000 he chaired the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and in 2002 and 2003 he co-chaired the International Bar Association’s Task Force on International Terrorism. In 1994 he received the International Human Rights Award of the American Bar Association in recognition of the role he played in South Africa’s transition from Apartheid to democracy. He is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of the Association of the Bar of City of New York, an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, London, and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge.