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This Research Guide provides detailed overviews of researching the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and ad hoc criminal tribunals.

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, also referred to as the IRMCT or the Mechanism, is an international court established by the United Nations Security Council in 2010 to perform the remaining functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the ...

Such courts may be established by a multilateral international agreement (“international tribunals”) or by an agreement between one State and an intergovernmental organizational (“hybrid tribunals”).

International criminal tribunals are temporary (ad hoc) or permanent courts convened for the purpose of deciding cases arising under international criminal law.

The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is the main judicial organ of the UN. It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands).

The ICC has indicted more than forty individuals, all from African countries. Seventeen people have been detained at The Hague, ten have been convicted of crimes, and four have been acquitted. There have been thirty-one cases before the ICC.

This Research Guide provides detailed overviews of researching the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and ad hoc criminal tribunals.

On 17 July 1998, a conference of 160 States established the first treaty-based permanent international criminal court. The treaty adopted during that conference is known as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.