The International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law is expected to shape current — and ...

The Court affirmed that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right, and that states have binding legal duties to mitigate climate harm under international law.

The decisions give priority to children's right to a healthy environment, affecting the government’s coal-power plans ...

In a landmark, unanimous advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice found that a state's violation of its legal ...

In a historic advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice ruled that access to a clean, healthy, and sustainable ...

Judges with the U.N.’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the top United Nations court, decided Wednesday that countries would be violating ...

A lawyer will make history as the first Moroccan to serve as a clerk at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since the creation of its prestigious Judicial Fellowship Program in 2000.

A recent order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate action signals the need for India to rethink its ...

The ICJ ruling is blunt: the multilateral climate change and environmental agreements and treaties that countries–including ...

Last week’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a gamechanger in the long-running global ...

The court’s bylaws call for its 15 judges to “be elected from among persons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to ...