About this site

International Court Watcher pulls together the public hearing calendars of seven international tribunals into one place, so you don't have to check seven separate websites to know what's coming up this month.

It covers the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Body.

Where the data comes from

Each court publishes its own calendar. A scraper reads those pages on a daily schedule and writes the results to this site's data files. Nothing here is official — always double-check against the court's own calendar (linked from each court's page) before relying on a date.

Why it looks the way it does

Court calendars are dry by nature. The name and the mark are the one place this project gets to have some personality; the data itself is left to speak plainly.

Corrections

If a date looks wrong or a court's page has stopped updating, the scraper for that court has likely broken against a site redesign — open an issue on the repository linked at the top of the page.