Judicial Decisions of International Tribunals

Probably the two best known international tribunals are the UN’s International Court of Justice and the Court of Justice of the European Communities . The United Nations and European Union sections of this tutorial explain in detail how to find cases from these courts.

Other international courts and tribunals which issue decisions include:

• European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)
• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Also available in the subscription database Westlaw (INT ICTR).
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Also available in the subscription database Westlaw (INT-ICTY)
• Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
• Special Court for Sierra Leone (SC-SL)

To find reports of cases from international tribunals in library catalogs, search under the name of the court as an author, or under the subject international law--cases.