ICJ documentation
The publications of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are published in several series, certain of which are available in electronic version.
ICJ documentation:
- Publications of the International Court of Justice.
- UN Documentation: International Court of Justice, a research guide by Dag Hammarskjöld Library, New York.
Annual report
The International Court of Justice submits its annual report for consideration to the General Assembly. The report is a summary of actions and decisions by the Court during the year.
Find Annual Reports
- The report of the International Court of Justice is issued as no 4 in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the General Assembly.
- Annual Reports since 1985 are posted at the website of the International Court of Justice.
- A list of the annual reports can be retrieved from the database UN-I-QUE.
Decisions and judgments
The International Court of Justice issues Reports of the decisions and judgements of the Court in both English and French texts.
Find decisions and judgements
- Report of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders contains reports on the decisions of the International Court of Justice in both English and French texts. Each decision is published immediately in an unbound booklet, referred to as the I.C.J. Reports, with an indication of the year. In January of each year, an analytical index is published on the previous year's decisions.
- Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the International Court of Justice are published periodically, covering different time periods.
- Full text documents of all cases can be retrieved from the website of the International Court of Justice:
- ICJ Judgments, Orders, Advisory Opinions in the research guide by Dag Hammarskjöld library, New York.
Verbatim records
After the termination of each case documentation is issued containing the verbatim record or the oral proceedings, the written pleadings and any document submitted to the Court after the closure of the written proceedings.
Find ICJ's verbatim records
- Volumes in this series are published as Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents.
- ICJ basic texts and publications. Research guide by the Dag Hammarskjöld library, New York.
Yearbook
The International Court of Justice produces a yearbook annually with an account of the work undertaken during the period from 1 August of the preceding year.
Find ICJ's yearbook
- A collection of the ICJ Yearbook in print is held by Dag Hammarskjöld and the Law Library at Uppsala University, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters.
- A list of Yearbooks can be accessed through the database UN-I-QUE.
- ICJ basic texts and publications. Research guide by the Dag Hammarskjöld library, New York.
Bibliography
The International Court of Justice regularly issues a bibliography - Bibliographie de la Cour internationale de Justice - Bibliography of the International Court of Justice - listing essential documents from the previous year.
Find ICJ bibliographies
- Bibliographies can be accessed through the database UN-I-QUE.
- ICJ basic texts and publications. Research guide by the Dag Hammarskjöld library, New York.
Press releases
A short summary of the ongoing activities of the International Court of Justice is contained in its press releases. Press releases from the International Court of Justice carry the following document symbol: ICJ/.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
- UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
- All UN documents from 1993-.
- All resolutions of the Principal Organs from 1946-.
- All Security Council plenary documents from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- All supplements to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR) from 1946-.
- All General Assembly plenary meeting records from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- Older documents are being scanned: Update on UN Digitization Programme.