International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations.
It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, sharing the building with the Hague Academy of International Law,
a private centre for the study of international law. Several of the Court's current judges are either alumni or former
faculty members of the Academy.
Its main functions are to settle legal disputes submitted to it by member states and to give advisory opinions on legal
questions submitted to it by duly authorized international organs, agencies and the UN General Assembly.
The ICJ has dealt with relatively few cases in its history, but there has clearly been an increased willingness to use
the Court since the 1980s, especially among developing countries.



See Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice