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 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.
On September 9, 2025, the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Federative Republic of Brazil on cooperation with and through the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the Federal Police of Brazil.
In August 2025, an Argentine court charged the daughter and son-in-law of a Nazi official who allegedly stole valuable paintings from European Jews during World War II with concealing paintings. The court started a criminal investigation and charged the couple after an online listing of real property showing Giuseppe Chislandi’s Portrait of a Lady.
In September 2025, a French judge issued an arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad and six former Syrian government officials for war crimes due to their role in the killings of journalists during the Syrian Civil War.
On September 3, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order and an opinion, prohibiting U.S. President Donald Trump from continuing to rely on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (“the Act”) to accelerate the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants who are alleged to belong to the criminal organization Tren de Aragua.
Suriname is a relatively rare example today of a South American state in which the nationality bar remains a major barrier to extradition, with there being no practical alternative form of justice available for extraterritorial criminality.
On August 29, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a decision ruled 7-4 to uphold the decision of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) that President Trump’s five emergency tariff orders aren’t authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
On August 13, the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the confiscation of over $2.8 million in cryptocurrency, $70.000 in cash, and a luxury car, all assets of Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko.
