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 25, 2025, Ukraine and the Council of Europe (CoE) signed an agreement in Strasbourg to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (“Tribunal”).
On July 21, 2025, José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar, principal leader of the transnational gang Los Choneros and an Ecuadoran national, was arraigned at Brooklyn’s federal court in New York City. This action comes a day after his extradition to the Eastern District of New York from Ecuador.
On July 22, 2025, Greek authorities detained infamous Moldovan oligarch, Vladimir Plahotniuc, and another unnamed Moldovan citizen in response to Plahotniuc’s placement on Interpol’s international wanted list.
On July 9, 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its long-awaited judgment in the interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (applications nos. 8019/16, 43800/14, 28525/20, and 11055/22).
The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (ASP or the Assembly) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) met in a Special Session on July 7-9, 2025 in New York, United States, to review the jurisdiction of the ICC over the crime of aggression, which establishes individual criminal responsibility for the planning, preparation, initiation, or execution of a manifest act of aggression.
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.
