International judicial institutions can be divided into courts, arbitral tribunals and quasi-judicial institutions. Courts are permanent bodies, with near the same composition for each case. Arbitral tribunals, by contrast, are constituted anew for each case. Both courts and arbitral tribunals can make binding decisions. Quasi-judicial institutions, by contrast, make rulings on cases, but these rulings are not in themselves legally binding; the main example is the individual complaints mechanisms available under the various UN human rights treaties.
Institutions can also be divided into global and regional institutions.
Global institutions - Courts
Global institutions - Arbitral Tribunals
- [Permanent Court of Arbitration]?
- [WTO Dispute Settlement Panels]?
- [International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes]?
Global institutions - Quasi-judicial Institutions - check whether the names below are correct, and if the below institutions are the optional procedure ones
- [Human Rights Committee]?
- [Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination]?
- [Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women]?
Regional institutions - Europe
- [European Court of Justice]?
- [European Court of Human Rights]?
- [European Tribunal in Matters of State Immunity]? (have I got the name right?)
- [European Nuclear Energy Tribunal]?
- [Benelux Court of Justice]?
Regional institutions - the Americas
Regional institutions - Africa