2002 (Porto Alegre) - The first World Forum of Judges in Porto Alegre was a historical event, purposed as an ongoing venue for discussion and enhancement of legal institutions and an instrument to denounce antidemocratic practices and attempts at ursurping the autonomy and independence of judges around the world. Since the first forum, worldwide legal leaders have participated, such as former Indian Supreme Court chief justice P. Bawhghatti; Mary Robinson from the European Court on Human Rights; Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón; Argentine judge Rodolfo Capón Fillas and others.

2003 (Porto Alegre) - Keynote speakers at the second WFJ included: Portuguese sociologist Boaventura Santos and Mireille Delmas-Marty from France, former member of the European Court on Human Rights. One result of the II WFJ occurred in Chile the following year, with the Founding Meeting of the Ibero-American Network of Judges, with judges from ten countries from Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, which has been active in cases where the independence of the Judiciary is ursurped and in denouncing cases of violations of fundamental rights.

2004 (Buenos Aires) - The first meeting held outside of Brazil, the WFJ took place in Argentina, and gathered jurists and authorities such as: Raúl Zaffaroni, Minister of the Argentine Supreme Court and Leandro Despouy, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the Independence of Judges and Attorneys and Franco Ippolito, member of the Democratic Magistrature in Italy. This same year a workshop was conducted in Mumbai, India, during the World Social Forum.

2005 (Porto Alegre) -This year, the meeting was held in Brazil and had Spanish Supreme Court judge and vice-chairman of the National Council for Justice Fernando Salinas; French journalist Ignacio Ramonet, member of the international council of the World Social Forum, Taiwanese judge Yang-Fu-Chiang, Italian Gherardo Colombo, member of ‘Operation Clean Hands, as well as other illustrious participants.