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.
After the United States Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank of New York barred 14 Iraqi banks from conducting dollar transactions, Iraq has taken enforcement action against currency traders and increasing air and land border checks to prevent U.S. dollars from use by Iranians.
On July 27, 2022, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg convicted German ISIS member Jalda A. of aiding and abetting genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes for the enslavement and abuse of a young Yazidi woman, “M”. The court sentenced the defendant to five years and six months in prison. The conviction is the second one of an ISIS member for genocide for atrocities committed against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria. M joined the proceedings as a co-plaintiff and served as the key witness. Barrister Amal Clooney and German lawyers Sonka Mehner and Natalie von Wistinghausen represented M.
The purpose of this article is to examine the regulation of ‘autonomous sanctions’ in another Commonwealth jurisdiction, that of Canada. Given the topicality of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine, the article references the measures that Canada has taken against Russian nationals and legal entities.
On July 24, 2023, after a forfeiture hearing at Southwark Crown Court in London, Judge David Tomlinson ordered James Ibori, former governor of Delta State in Nigeria, to repay more than £101.5 million.
On August 6, 2023, the Australian Government announced an initiative against tax advisers in the wake of the PwC tax leaks scandal.
On August 2, 2023, four Guatemalan nationals pleaded guilty to their participation in a Guatemalan-based human smuggling conspiracy involving a large number of migrants from Guatemala through Mexico to the United States.
On June 21st, 2023, The Higher Regional Court of Koblenz in Germany convicted a German national of aiding and abetting genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the enslavement and abuse of the co-plaintiff, a Yazidi woman from Iraq beginning April of 2016.
On July 28, 2023, a U.S. grand jury in the Southern District of Texas returned a superseding indictment charging four defendants with conspiracy to launder money.
On July 26, 2023, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security announced the Brazilian government has preliminarily denied a request from the U.S. to extradite alleged Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov.
