Talk:Permanent Court of International Justice

Something odd

This sounds very unclear. Please explain.

Guerrero became the first president of the International Court of Justice in 1946 and served in that post until 1945, when the UN International Court of Justice was formed. --Mégara (Мегъра) - D. G. Mavrov (talk) 01:05, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

History hard to follow, filled with inconsequential facts

The history section of this article is difficult to follow as it is almost a list of cases and questions. To make it worse, these cases and questions are linked to articles that do not exist. The history should be more encyclopedic and cover major facts, not the minor year to year changes in case load. The cases could be organized into a table instead. Dspencer (talk) 23:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Good! There should be more links to pages that don't exist. And easy summaries are for lead sections. Ironholds (talk) 00:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Date of foundation

It seems that the contributers to this article consider the first session of this Court in 1922 to be the date of foundation. That would then be either:

• 30 January 1922, which was the (only) preliminary session of the Court.
• 15 February 1922, the public inaugural meeting of the Court in the Peace Palace in The Hague.
• 15 June 1922, the first ordinary session of the Court.

In my opinion not one of the above dates is correct. Let's go through the earlier chronology:

• 25 January 1919: at the Plenary Session of the Preliminary Peace Conference a resolution passed which created a committee for discussion of plans of the League of Nations for establishing an international court.
• 13 December 1920 the Statute of the Court was unanimously approved by the Assembly (of the League of Nations) through the ‘Resolution Concerning the Establishment of PCIJ’, to be submitted to the members of the League of Nations for adoption on the basis of the majority rule.
• 14 December 1920 the Council of the League of Nations adopted the draft of the Protocol of Signatures and considers a draft of an "Optional Clause".
• 25 February 1921 the Protocol of Signature had been signed on behalf of 27 Members of the League of Nations. The Council authorized election nomination of candidates for the first election of judges.
• 1 September 1921 the Protocol of Signature had been ratified by 22 of 41 signatories. The Statute came into force. (by majority rule)

By the best of my knowledge an international institution is created bij adapting it's statute, on the provision of it's ratification by the member states. So, to me 13 December 1920 appears to be the correct date of the foundation of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Or, possibly, the coming into force of the statute on 1 September 1921 could be seen as it's foundation date, but I do not think this is true.
The above dates are from: http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/timeline.htm
Verified against: http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=1
Regards, --OSeveno (talk) 16:32, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

@OSeveno: fair enough. I'd agree the statute makes more sense; changing it now. Many thanks for your correction! Ironholds (talk) 16:50, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Error in Increasing Work section

from 1922 to 1969 is clearly wrong, someone needs to fix this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fliponium (talk • contribs) 12:26, 26 June 2022 (UTC)