The first and second lists are of all the permanent
judge
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s of the
International Court of Justice
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, the main judicial organ of the
United Nations
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, first chronologically and then by seat. The third list is a list of judges appointed ''ad hoc'' by a party to a proceeding before the Court pursuant to Article 31 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
Permanent judges
Elections
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2011 International Court of Justice judges election
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2014 International Court of Justice judges election
The 2014 International Court of Justice election began on 6 November 2014 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. In the set of triennial elections, the United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly and the Security Council concurrent ...
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2017 International Court of Justice judges election
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2018 International Court of Justice judges election
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2020 International Court of Justice judges election
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2021 International Court of Justice judges election
Succession of seats
The Court comprises 15 seats. When the original fifteen judges were elected in 1946, they drew lots to determine which five would have 3-year initial terms, which five would have 6-year initial terms, and which five would have 9-year initial terms. From then onwards, all terms have been nine years, with five seats being up for election every three years. The seats are numbered according to the length of the initial term and then in order of seniority of the first judge to hold the seat.
There are no formal rules for the allocation of seats, other than that no two judges may be nationals of the same country. In practice, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have each had a permanent seat on the Court, except between 1967 and 1985 when there was no Chinese judge and since 2018, when there has been no judge from the UK.
The remaining seats have been informally allocated by
regional groups in the same way as the fifteen seats on the Security Council. Since 1970, the conventional allocation is three seats to Asia Pacific, three seats to Africa, two seats to Latin America and the Caribbean, two seats to Eastern Europe and five seats to Western Europe and Others. That convention was broken in 2018 when an Asian judge was elected to a seat previously occupied by judges from the Western Europe and Others group.
Judges sitting ''ad hoc''
See also
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List of International Court of Justice cases
The list of International Court of Justice cases includes contentious cases and advisory opinions brought to the International Court of Justice since its creation in 1946. Forming a key part of international law, 181 cases have been entered onto ...
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International Court of Justice judges
References
Lists of legal professionals
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