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International Jurisdictions Council
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Press information for the
International Jurisdictions Council.

For journalists, editors, and analysts covering cross-border legal practice, institutional legal intelligence, or the Assembly of Global General Counsel. Key facts, story angles, boilerplate copy, and direct contact below.

Press contact
Key facts

The institution at a glance.

2026
Founded
Inaugural Assembly convening August 2026, Barcelona
80
Target Jurisdictions
Global coverage across five major regions
5
Practice Domains
Corporate/M&A · Arbitration · Disputes · Regulatory · Private Client
4
Instruments
GLRI · EOD · Assembly · Designation
Founding event
Founding Constituent Assembly — 14–15 August 2026, Hyatt Regency Barcelona Tower, Barcelona
Headquarters
International · theijc.org · sumanarora@theijc.org
Story angles

What the story is.

Five story angles for journalists covering this institution. Each represents a genuinely underreported aspect of cross-border legal practice that IJC addresses directly.

01
The intelligence gap in cross-border legal practice
General Counsel at the world's largest companies make billion-dollar cross-border decisions with inadequate intelligence about how legal systems actually behave — enforcement timelines, regulatory posture, dispute reality. The Global Legal Readiness Index™ is the first institutional attempt to close this gap with on-ground observed intelligence rather than statutory description.
02
The founding of a new kind of legal institution
IJC is a new institutional category — not a law firm, not a directory, not a rankings body, not a membership association. It is an institutional framework that holds one law practice's position per domain per jurisdiction globally, producing intelligence that could only come from genuine on-ground legal practice. The founding event in Barcelona, August 2026, marks the institution's formal beginning.
03
General Counsel without a deliberative forum
Senior in-house legal leaders have no non-commercial space for deliberation on cross-border legal reality. Every available forum — conferences, networks, advisory relationships — carries commercial agendas. The Assembly of Global General Counsel is the first attempt to create a genuinely non-commercial, closed deliberative institution for this audience at a global level.
04
Enforcement reality versus statutory promise
The most important fact about any legal system — how long enforcement actually takes, whether foreign judgments are actually enforced, what happens when you try to recover from a government-linked entity — is almost never captured in any published legal reference. The GLRI is built specifically to capture this gap, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, from practitioners who have run the real matters.
05
The scarcity model in legal institutional design
Unlike legal directories (which admit any paying firm) and rankings (which assess hundreds of firms per category), IJC designates exactly one practice per domain per jurisdiction globally. This structural scarcity — enforced as an architectural decision, not a policy — creates a fundamentally different kind of institutional recognition and a different relationship between the institution and the practices it designates.
For publication

Boilerplate copy.

Approved copy for use in publications. Please use as written — amendments require approval.

Standard boilerplate — 80 words
The International Jurisdictions Council (IJC) is a global institutional framework for cross-border legal intelligence. It operates through four instruments: the Global Legal Readiness Index™, a continuously updated reference on how law operates in practice across 80 jurisdictions; the Executive Orientation Desk, providing confidential cross-border orientation for senior decision-makers; the Assembly of Global General Counsel, a permanent deliberative body for senior in-house legal leaders; and the designation of Constituent Law Practices — one per practice domain per jurisdiction globally. The founding Constituent Assembly convenes in Barcelona, 14–15 August 2026. theijc.org
Short form — 30 words
The International Jurisdictions Council (IJC) is a global institutional framework for cross-border legal intelligence — operating through the Global Legal Readiness Index™, the Executive Orientation Desk, the Assembly of Global General Counsel, and the designation of Constituent Law Practices.
Spokesperson

Director available for comment.

SA
Suman Arora
Director, International Jurisdictions Council

Suman Arora is the founding Director of the International Jurisdictions Council. She established IJC to close the gap between cross-border legal responsibility carried centrally — by General Counsel, boards, and organisations — and cross-border legal execution carried out locally in systems that behave very differently from how they are described. She is available for interview, comment, and briefing on IJC, the GLRI, the Assembly, and the broader landscape of cross-border legal intelligence.

sumanarora@theijc.org
Response time: Media inquiries are responded to within 24 hours. For time-sensitive requests, contact Suman Arora directly at sumanarora@theijc.org with "PRESS — URGENT" in the subject line.