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 June 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against a plethora of individuals and entities that finance the militant wing of Hamas, which the United States government has designated as a terrorist organization.
On July 18, 2025, the United States (U.S.) and Venezuela swapped prisoners. The U.S. sent more than 250 Venezuelans deported in March and flown to a high-security prison in El Salvador in exchange for ten U.S. citizens and permanent residents imprisoned in Venezuela.
On July 11, 2025, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) released a communique resulting from the July 6-8 meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, under the chairmanship of Dr. Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica.
On May 19, 2025, Lithuania officially introduced proceedings against Belarus before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In its application, the country accuses Belarus of directing irregular migrant flows to Lithuania, which violates the United Nations (UN) Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, and Air, a protocol supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), also known as the Palermo Convention.
On July 8, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) made a historic move by issuing arrest warrants for two leading figures in Afghanistan’s Taliban: Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani.
The landmark House v. NCAA settlement, finalized in June 2025, marks a seismic shift in the legal and regulatory landscape of collegiate athletics in the United States (U.S.).
On July 15, 2025, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who succeeded his father Joaquin Guzman Loera (commonly known as El Chapo) as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, pleaded guilty in the United States (U.S.) District Court in Chicago for federal drug charges.
On July 9, 2025, the Council of Europe (CoE) officially adopted a Protocol amending the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (CETS No. 196), also known as the Warsaw Convention (hereafter “the Convention”).
Independent French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes was arrested in Algeria on May 28, 2024, for allegedly “glorifying terrorism” and “possessing publications for propaganda purposes harmful to national interests.”
On July 9, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he would impose a 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian imports, partly in retaliation for the Brazilian government’s prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is charged with, inter alia, attempting a coup.
