The International Association of Judges
was founded in Salzburg (Austria) in 1953. It is a professional, non-political, international organisation, bringing together national associations of judges, not individual judges, approved by the Central Council for admission to the Association.
The main aim of the Association is to safeguard the independence of the judiciary, which is an essential requirement of the judicial function, guaranteeing human rights and freedom.
The organization currently encompasses 92 such national associations or representative groups, from five Continents.
- ALBANIA
- ALGERIA
- ANGOLA
- ARGENTINA
- ARMENIA
- AUSTRALIA
- AUSTRIA
- AZERBAIJAN
- BELGIUM
- BENIN
- BERMUDA
- BOLIVIA
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- BRASIL
- BULGARIA
- BURKINA FASO
- CANADA
- CHILE
- COLOMBIA
- COSTA RICA
- CROATIA
- CYPRUS
- CZECHIA
- DEMOCRATIC REP. OF CONGO
- DENMARK
- DOMIN. REP.
- EAST TIMOR
- ECUADOR
- EL SALVADOR
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GABON
- GEORGIA
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- GUATEMALA
- GUINEA
- GUINEA BISSAU
- HUNGARY
- ICELAND
- IRELAND
- ISRAEL
- ITALY
- IVORY COAST
- JAPAN
- KAZAKHSTAN
- LATVIA
- LEBANON
- LIBERIA
- LIECHTENSTEIN
- LITHUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALI
- MALTA
- MAURITANIE
- MEXICO
- MOLDOVA
- MONGOLIA
- MONTENEGRO
- MOROCCO
- MOZAMBIQUE
- NETHERLANDS
- NEW ZEALAND
- NIGER
- NORWAY
- PANAMA
- PARAGUAY
- PERU
- PHILIPPINES
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- PUERTO RICO
- REP OF CHINA
- REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA
- ROMANIA
- SAO TOME E PRINCIPE
- SENEGAL
- SERBIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SOUTH AFRICA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- SWITZERLAND
- TOGO
- TUNISIA
- TURKEY
- UKRAINE
- UNITED KINGDOM
- URUGUAY
- USA
The Association is organised in:
Four Regional Groups:
European Association of Judges
Iberoamerican Group
African Group
Asian, North American and Oceanian Group
Four Study Commissions:
1st Study Commission
2nd Study Commmission
3rd Study Commmission
4th Study Commmission
Latest IAJ NEWS
News from our
Regional Groups
Latest EAJ NEWS
- EAJ resolutions adopted in Cape Town – 2024
- COST – EU Action
- Joint press release of EAJ, Medel, AEAJ and Judges for Judges on Poland
- EU Rule of Law Report 2024. Independence of the judiciary and the fight against corruption
- Statement on Turkey
- Joint press release of IAJ-EAJ, Medel, AEAJ and Judges for Judges on the court order of the General Court
Latest IBA NEWS
- IBA resolution on Peru – Cape Town 2024
- IBA declaration on Argentinian Judges and Prosecutors
- IAJ Presidency Committee statement on Mexico
- Meeting of the IBA Group of the IAJ in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- IBA Group statements about Spain and Puerto Rico
- Meetings of the IAJ Regional Groups in Taipei, Taiwan
Latest AG NEWS
On 19th October 2024, during the 66th annual meeting of the IAJ in Cape Town, the IAJ Judicial Independence Award was delivered to the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI).
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Important Documents
In its meeting in Santiago del Chile, in 2017, the Central Council of the IAJ decided to set up a Working Group charged to draft guidelines and a model statute in order to promote the establishment of associations of judges in countries where there were not.
The Working Group concluded its activities and now you can find the final official version of the document:
The document outlines the legal background and the different steps to establish an association of judges, drafts the structure of a statute and presents, as possible models, some statutes coming from consolidated national associations of different legal systems.
- News and Facts by National Associations
- Surveys of National Associations
- UIJLP – Charter on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in Justice
- Side Event “Enhancing implementation of UPR recommendations through judicial engagement”
- International Forum “High Culture of Jurisdiction” – Perugia (Italy), 20th September, 2024
- International Conference of Judges from Central America and Europe in Berlin, 9-10 September 2024
- International Conference in Baku on “Law & Climate”
- On-line meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur
- “Are Rights of Judges Becoming Rule of Law Standards in Europe?”
- Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
- Signature of a Co-operation Agreement between the IAJ and the International Union of Notaries (UINL)
- Annual Conference of the European Forum of the Legal Professions
- Presentation of the Secretary General Oberto on the role of Judges’Associations
- Presentation: The judicial practice of citizen judge system
- Article on Journal of Constitutional History
- United States: Why Public Trust in the Judiciary Matters
- Secretary-General’s “Lectio Magistralis” at the Closure of the 2023 Cycle of Lectures of the World Notariat University, in Rome
- Seminar in Tunis on the Independence of the Judiciary
- The “2018 Brasília Declaration of Judges on Water Justice”
- The Global Judicial Integrity Network’s Webinar – Promoting Active Participation of Women in the Judiciary
- Meeting with the IAJ and the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
- Global Judicial Intregrity Network
Solidarity with the Judiciary of:
We gathered in this page all the links referring to I.A.J.’s activities in the fight against corruption:
Representatives of the IAJ serve on the Global Judicial Integrity Network Advisory Board: Advisory Board
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Poland: anti-corruption experts report very low level of compliance with recommendations as “globally unsatisfactory”:
In a follow up assessment published on December 17th 2019 on corruption with respect to members of parliament, judges and prosecutors, the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) determines that Poland has implemented seven of 16 recommendations and only one of six recommendations for a more recent “ad-hoc” procedure addressing specific judicial reforms (2016-2018).
Link to the article:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/greco/-/poland-anti-corruption-experts-report-very-low-level-of-compliance-with-recommendations-as-globally-unsatisfactory-
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Important achievements in the fight against corruption: article of Mr. Diego García-Sayán:
The Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Mr. Diego García–Sayán, wrote an article on corruption, published in “El Pais”.
Hereinafter the link to the article:
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/13/opinion/1576201335_758226.html?prm=enviar_email
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IV Seminar in the fight against corruption: Santo Domingo: 4-6 December 2019
The IAJ Ibero American group is promoting the IV annual seminar in the rule of law and fight against corruption.
Judicial education is a main priority of IAJ, so each year we organize a seminar like this, to join Latin American judges and discuss among international lectures, how to engage judges worldwide in the fight against corruption.
Dominican Republic invites us to the IV seminar.
Invitation (in Spanish)
Registration form (in Spanish)
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Seminar on Corruption: “Corrupcion y Estado de Derecho”- Lima (Peru), 22-24 February 2017:programme
Judicial Anti-Corruption Compact ( document submitted by Mr Rivkin,
IBA)_ English
Judicial Anti-Corruption Compact _Spanish
The International Bar Association Judicial Integrity Initiative ( document submitted by Mr Rivkin,IBA)_English
The International Bar Association Judicial Integrity Initiative_Spanish
Towards a Global Judicial Integrity Network (Oliver Stolpe’s Presentation in Chisinau – 19th May 2017)
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