Commemorates the 90th anniversary of the inauguration, in 1922, of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the predecessor of the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It offers readers a clear and concise overview of the origins and the creation of the Permanent Court, a general description of its remit and the way in which it functioned, summaries of all its judgments and advisory opinions, as well as various statistics. It also includes a list of all the judges of the Permanent court, numerous original photographs (some of which have never been published), and an afterword, providing a link between the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and its prestigious predecessor of the last century.