Global Justice

The Yearbook reports and analyses major developments in international jurisprudence through its section Global Justice — Jurisprudential Surveys. Each Survey examines the activity of a leading international court, tribunal or quasi-judicial body, offering readers a focused account of the decisions and institutional developments that shape contemporary international law. The 2025 edition provides extensive coverage of judicial and arbitral activity in 2024–2025, bringing together universal jurisdictions, regional courts, quasi-judicial human rights bodies, and ad hoc criminal tribunals and special courts. They identify the legal questions that matter, trace emerging lines of reasoning, and situate individual judgments within broader patterns of judicial dialogue, cross-fertilisation and doctrinal development. Through this coverage, the Yearbook offers scholars, practitioners and students a reliable guide to the jurisprudence most relevant to the continuing evolution of international and global law.

Courts, tribunals and bodies covered include:


Universal Jurisdictions

Regional Courts

Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies

Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals and Special Courts


Look for our current Jurisprudential Surveys and past Annual Reports on international jurisprudence.