When appointed president of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT) in 2012, known as the Mechanism, Meron had assumed responsibility for the supervision of all international prisoners. Meron was now in charge of making new rules and judgements upon these cases. A Polish-born US citizen and an international lawyer with a stellar career, Meron was a recipient of the French Légion d’Honneur and a Shakespeare scholar. The first president of the Mechanism, Meron served from its creation in 2012 until January 2019.
