When the United Nations was founded in aftermath of World War II, The Hague once again became the center of international law. But while all other main UN bodies were located in New York, the ...

International law knows of no graver crime than genocide. The 1948 convention, which Israel was among the first nations to join, defines genocide as the perpetration of any of several heinous ...

The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s ...

The resignation of International Court of Justice President Nawaf Salam to become Lebanon's prime minister has elevated Vice President Julia Sebutinde to the role of acting president, marking a ...

The International Court of Justice is international, to be sure, but it is neither behaving like a court nor dispensing justice. Rather, the ICJ is allowing itself to be used as a geopolitical ...

Updated at 8:35 a.m. ET on February 2, 2024. The International Court of Justice in The Hague today made an initial ruling, four weeks after an application from South Africa that accused Israel of ...

The function of the ICJ is only to decide international law disputes that states submit, popularly called ‘non ultra petita rule’, and according to Article 36, paragraph 2 of the ICJ Statute, the ...

On February 22, 2023, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, ordered provisional measures to ensure that Azerbaijan ends the blockage of the ...

07/16/2025 July 16, 2025. Israel must defend itself against accusations of genocide before the International Court of Justice. The ICJ has unique status across the world, but its rulings can be ...

The International Court of Justice serves as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations File image: Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rule on emergency measures against Israel ...