The 76th session of the International Law Commission: view of the participant (in Russian)
Starting on 27 October, the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly will consider the Report submitted by the International Law Commission on the outcome of its work at the 76th session, held from 28 April to 30 May 2025. Aleksei Petrenko, Senior Researcher on Public International Law at the ICLRC, took part in that session as assistant to ILC member Evgeny Zagaynov.
Ahead of the Committee’s discussion, we are publishing Aleksei’s review (in Russian), in which he talks about the Commission and its work and recounts how the seventy-sixth session unfolded. In particular, the ILC completed its work on the topic “Sea-level rise in relation to international law”; made progress on others — immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction (including the contentious Draft article 7 on exceptions), general principles of law, and subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law. Two new topics were also added to the current programme: “Compensation for damage caused by internationally wrongful acts” and “Due diligence in international law.”
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Areas of professional expertise: Education In 2013, Aleksei graduated from the IKBFU (Kaliningrad). In 2015, he obtained an LL.M. degree with a specialization in international law from the University of Göttingen (Germany). He also completed an exchange semester at the University of Kiel (Germany). In 2024, the degree of Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.) was awarded following the defence of the dissertation at the University of Göttingen. The dissertation was written in the field of international law and concerned the right to regulate in investment and trade law. In 2016, Aleksei received the “International Law in the 21st Century” Award from the ICLRC. The previous year, the Society of International Economic Law highly commended his paper on WTO law in an essay competition on international economic law. Professional Experience From 2016 to 2017, Aleksei worked as a research assistant at the Institute of International and European Law at the University of Göttingen. Later, Aleksei joined the WTO Expertise Center in Moscow, where he handled inter-State trade disputes from 2017 to 2019. He was a member of the litigation team that achieved the first win in a WTO dispute initiated by Russia. Aleksei participated in over ten inter-State disputes, including panel and Appellate Body proceedings, representing complainants, respondents and third parties. He also took part in WTO committee meetings and conducted practical seminars on trade law for representatives of government agencies and large businesses. Aleksei has developed and taught law courses at three universities in both Russian and English. In 2022, he joined the School of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), as an Associate Professor, where he teaches subjects related to public international law. In 2024, Aleksei coached the winning team in the moot court competition «Dispute Settlement in the Eurasian Economic Union.» He also received a certificate of appreciation from the School of International Law (HSE University). Before joining the ICLRC, Aleksei worked with the Center as an expert, and in 2020, he officially became part of the team, focusing on issues linked to public international law.
Author of the monograph: Petrenko, Aleksei. The Right to Regulate in International Economic Law: Towards a General Theory with Lessons from the GATS / A. Petrenko. - Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2024. - 227 p.