The following are the world’s major international courts, including dates established, with links to their websites:
Interstate dispute courts
International Court of Justice – The Hague, Netherlands (1946)
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea – Hamburg, Germany (1996)
World Trade Organization Appellate Body – Geneva, Switzerland (1995)
Courts of regional economic and political integration
agreements
Court of Justice of the European Communities – Luxembourg (1952)
European Free Trade Area Court of Justice – Luxembourg (1994)
Court of Justice of the Andean Community – Quito, Ecuador (1979)
Caribbean Court of Justice – Port of Spain, Trinidad (2005)
Human rights courts
European Court of Human Rights – Strasbourg, France (1959)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights – San Jose, Costa Rica (1979)
African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights – Arusha, Tanzania (2004)
International criminal courts
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia – The Hague, Netherlands (1993)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – Arusha, Tanzania (1995)
International Criminal Court – The Hague, Netherlands (2003)
Special Court for Sierra Leone – Freetown, Sierra Leone (2002)
Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia – Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2003)
