The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.
Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.
On September 19, 2025, United States (U.S.) District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, dismissed the government’s suit against a taxpayer to reduce assessed penalties to judgment and collect the penalties imposed for her failure to file foreign bank account reports.
On September 23, 2025, in a joint statement, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The three member states of the Alliance of Sahel States have announced their immediate withdrawal from the Rome Statute, accusing the ICC of practicing “selective justice.”
On August 28, 2025, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the United States (U.S.) District Court for the Northern District of California granted the U.S. Government’s motion to compel Apple to give subscriber and payment information of an individual concerning an investigation by the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (SFTA), holding that a potential criminal investigation in Switzerland does not show bad faith on the part of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
On September 22, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Department of the Treasury unveiled new sanctions targeting Viviane Barci de Moraes -- the wife of previously sanctioned Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes -- and Lex Instituto de Estudos Juridicos LTDA under the Global Magnitsky Act.
On September 19, 2025, the Council of Europe (CoE) opened for signature a new protocol to its Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters at the Ministers of Justice conference, organized under the Malta Presidency and focused on enhancing cross-border cooperation and mutual assistance.
On September 15, 2025, pursuant to §706(1) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FRAA), Fiscal Year 2003,[1] United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump identified the following countries as major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries: Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
On September 16, 2025, the United Nations (UN) Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem and Israel, submitted a report that examines the conduct of Israel in Gaza in the context of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
On September 2, 2025, United States (U.S.) military forces targeted and struck a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing all eleven persons on board in what legal specialists and military lawyers are calling an “extraordinary” departure from traditional drug interdiction procedures.
On August 26, a prominent human rights lawyer representing the Egyptian poet and dissident Abdul Rahman Yusef al-Qaradawi filed a complaint with the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, requesting an investigation into the conditions of his detention.
On July 2, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a judgment of acquittal entered by the district court in the case of U.S. v. Hernán Lopez, Full Play Group, S.A., 143 F.4th 99. The defendant has indicated that it will file a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari.
