About this digest
Arbitral Digest follows courts, tribunals, institutions, and public legal materials where issues of sanctions, arbitration, and foreign-judgment enforcement arise.
The digest is selective. It is designed to help readers notice recent developments and decide whether the underlying material warrants closer review.
It is not a complete case-law database, a substitute for legal research, or a source of legal advice.
I believe the areas selected for this project require daily inquiry. Ad hoc research can be useful, but it does not offer the same breadth of comparative experience.
Why it exists
Important cross-border dispute materials are scattered across legal systems, institutions, public authorities, and court records. Arbitral Digest aims to reduce the time needed to find new industry case law and make a preliminary assessment of its relevance.
Exposure to foreign judgments is valuable for legal development. It shows how and why certain arguments work, builds familiarity with recurring substantive and procedural issues, and gives a better understanding of the work of industry participants.
What the digest follows
The core scope is sanctions, international arbitration, foreign-judgment enforcement, sovereign immunity, public policy, and related cross-border proceedings.
About the editor
Arbitral Digest is edited and operated by Mykhailo Zhelunitsyn as a personal project aimed at improving access to recent industry developments and making them easier to locate in time.
Relevant arbitration and enforcement work includes assisting in two LCIA oil-and-gas arbitrations involving major industry participants; supporting recognition and enforcement in Ukraine of multiple arbitral awards rendered in favour of a leading Italian construction company; and assisting with U.S. enforcement proceedings concerning an arbitral award in an oil-and-gas dispute.
That work has included legal and factual research, analysis of Ukrainian and foreign law, document review, exhibit preparation, factual chronologies, procedural documents, enforcement petitions, court filings, and coordination with foreign counsel.