As of November 2002, 24 cases were pending:
- 1-2. Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America)
- 3. Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America)
- 4. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia)
- 5. Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia)
- 6. Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malasia)
- 7. Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of Congo)
- 8-15. Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Belgium; Yugoslavia v. Canada; Yugoslavia v. France; Yugoslavia v. Germany; Yugoslavia v. Italy; Yugoslavia v. Netherlands; Yugoslavia v. Portugal; Yugoslavia v. United Kingdom)
- 16. Armed activities on the territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo v. Uganda)
- 17. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Yugoslavia)
- 18. Maritime Delimitation between Nicaragua and Honduras in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Honduras)
- 19. Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 July 1996 in the Case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia), Preliminary Objections (Yugoslavia v. Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 20. Certain Property (Liechtenstein v. Germany)
- 21. Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia)
- 22. Frontier Dispute (Benin/Niger)
- 23. Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (New Application: 2002) (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda)
- 24. Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 September 1992 in the Case concerning the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute (El Salvador v. Honduras)