International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ)
Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ)
Internationaal Gerechtshof
Search Open Yearbook
This information is part of the Open Yearbook, a free service of UIA's subscription-based Yearbook of International Organizations (YBIO). It includes profiles of non-profit organizations working worldwide in all fields of activity. The information contained in the profiles and search functionality of this free service are limited.
The full-featured Yearbook of International Organizations (YBIO) includes over 72,500 organization profiles, additional information in the profiles, sophisticated search functionality and data export. For more information about YBIO, please click here or contact us.
The UIA is a leading provider of information about international non-profit organizations. The aim of the Open Yearbook is to promote the activities of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
Contact Details
More detailed data available with paid subscription.
Founded
1946-02-06
History
Established as the principal judicial organ of A-XA3375 - United Nations (UN), superseding H-XH3108 - Permanent Court of International Justice, set up 13 Dec 1920. Operates under a Statute which is part of the UN Charter (Article 94-1); parties to the Statute include all members of the United Nations. Comes within the F-XF1000 - United Nations System, any of the other UN Main Organs (except Secretary-General) and all those Agencies being currently authorized to request opinions of the Court. Based at G-XG1004 - Peace Palace, The Hague (Netherlands).
Aims
Settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted by states; give advisory opinions on legal questions referred by duly authorized international organs and agencies.
Activities
Available with paid subscription only.Structure
Court consists of 15 judges elected by UN General Assembly and by UN Security Council, voting independently. Judges serve for a term of 9 years, one third being elected every 3 years, and may be re-elected. No two judges may be of the same nationality. A party to a case may nominate a judge 'ad hoc' if no member of the bench is of its nationality. Questions before the full Court are decided by a majority of the judges present, with 9 judges, plus any judges ad hoc, constituting a quorum. With a view to speedy dispatch of business, a chamber of 5 judges is formed annually and may, at the request of the parties, hear and determine cases by summary procedure. Also at the request of the parties, the Court may constitute an ad-hoc Chamber to deal with a particular case.
Languages
Available with paid subscription only.Staff
Available with paid subscription only.Finance
Available with paid subscription only.Relations with Inter-Governmental Organizations
Available with paid subscription only.Publications
Available with paid subscription only.Members
Available with paid subscription only.Type I Classification
Available with paid subscription only.Type II Classification
Available with paid subscription only.Subjects *
Available with paid subscription only.UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XF3379
** UN SDGs are linked to the subject classification.
← return to your search page to find additional profiles.
UIA allows users to access and make use of the information contained in its Databases for the user’s internal use and evaluation purposes only. A user may not re-package, compile, re-distribute or re-use any or all of the UIA Databases or the data* contained therein without prior permission from the UIA.
Data from database resources may not be extracted or downloaded in bulk using automated scripts or other external software tools not provided within the database resources themselves. If your research project or use of a database resource will involve the extraction of large amounts of text or data from a database resource, please contact us for a customized solution.
UIA reserves the right to block access for abusive use of the Database.
* Data shall mean any data and information available in the Database including but not limited to: raw data, numbers, images, names and contact information, logos, text, keywords, and links.