The Permanent Court of International Justice, 1922-2012

Commemorates the 90th anniversary of the inauguration, in 1922, of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the predecessor of the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It offers readers a clear and concise overview of the origins and the creation of the Permanent Court, a general description of its remit and the way in which it functioned, summaries of all its judgments and advisory opinions, as well as various statistics. It also includes a list of all the judges of the Permanent court, numerous original photographs (some of which have never been published), and an afterword, providing a link between the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and its prestigious predecessor of the last century.