Mónica Pinto

{{Short description|Argentinian lawyer and professor}}

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Mónica Pinto (born 1952){{cite web | url=https://www.idi-iil.org/app/uploads/2017/04/Monica-Pinto.pdf | title=MONICA PINTO Curriculum Vitae | publisher=idi-iil | accessdate=19 June 2020}} is an Argentinian lawyer. She studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating with a first degree in 1975, and a PhD in 1983.

On August 1, 2015, Pinto became a UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers.{{Cite web |date=2015-10-21 |title=UN experts call for release of Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami |url=https://ifex.org/un-experts-call-for-release-of-qatari-poet-mohammed-al-ajami/ |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=IFEX |language=en-US}} She held this position until being replaced by Diego García Sayán in 2016.{{cite web |title=Current and Former Mandate-Holders for Existing Mandates As at 1 September 2020 |url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Currentmandateholders.aspx |website=United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner |accessdate=4 October 2020}}

Pinto is a Professor of international law and of international human rights law at University of Buenos Aires Law School, and a judge in the World Bank Administrative Tribunal as well as at the Inter-American Development Bank Administrative Tribunal.{{cite web | url=https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ls/Pinto_bio.pdf | title=MS.MÓNICA PINTODean of the Law School and Professor, University of Buenos Aires Law School | publisher=United Nations | accessdate=19 June 2020}}{{cite web | url=https://www.iadb.org/en/administrative-tribunal/monica-pinto | title=Mónica Pinto | publisher=IDB | accessdate=19 June 2020}}{{cite web | url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Judiciary/Pages/MonicaPinto.aspx | title=Mónica Pinto | publisher=OHCHR | accessdate=19 June 2020}}

Pinto is currently serving as a Judge ad hoc in the Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands (Gabon/Equatorial Guinea) case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).{{Cite web |title=Current Judges ad hoc {{!}} International Court of Justice |url=https://www.icj-cij.org/en/current-judges-ad-hoc |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=www.icj-cij.org}} She was appointed by Gabon.