Abstract
In 2006 Dame Rosalyn Higgins became the first woman to achieve the most prestigious legal position in the world, President of the International Court of Justice. She retired from the position in 2009, and I had the pleasure of interviewing her in her home in Piccadilly in March 2014. The transcript and audio record of that meeting forms the basis for the Squire Law Library tribute to Dame Rosalyn on the Eminent Scholars Archive. The tribute also contains a summary biography of Dame Rosalyn’s career, presented in a chronological format. I prefaced this with the comment that her “remarkable trajectory [was] testament to a combination of dedicated effort, dogged adherence to espoused beliefs,… scholarly insights into the complex legal and political interactions that drove the UN’s making of international law in its early decades … and her mastery of constructive engagement with a wide range of colleagues…. ” In this article, I would like to illustrate these aspects of Dame Rosalyn’s career in more detail.
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