Judge Meron, who received his legal education at the Universities of Jerusalem, Harvard (where he received his doctorate), and Cambridge, became a professor of international law at New York University School of Law in 1978.
Since his election to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) by the U.N. General Assembly in 2001 he has served on the Appeals Chamber, which hears appeals from both the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).