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:

European Association of Judges
Iberoamerican Group
African Group
Asian, North American and Oceanian Group
1st Study Commission
2nd Study Commmission
3rd Study Commmission
4th Study Commmission

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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.

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 GarcíaSayán, 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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