RUDN Journal of LawRUDN Journal of Law2313-23372408-9001Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)3109810.22363/2313-2337-2022-26-2-508-527MiscellaneousTechnique and practice of international rule-making: review of the materials of the ESIL International conferenceAbashidzeAslan Kh.<p>Doctor of Legal Sciences, Full Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Interna-tional Law, Law Institute; Vice Chair and Rapporteur of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights</p>abashidze.rudn@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4887-9205GulyaevaElena E.<p>Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of International Law</p>gulya-eva@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8376-7212TrikozElena N.<p>Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of Law and Comparative Law, Faculty of International Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; Associate Professor of the Department of History of Law and State, Law Institute, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)</p>alena_trikoz@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7331-480XPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of RussiaMoscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia2805202226250852728052022Copyright © 2022, Abashidze A.K., Gulyaeva E.E., Trikoz E.N.2022<p style="text-align: justify;">The article presents the main trends in rule-making practice in the field of international law, which were summarized on the basis of expert reports and abstracts at the Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) in autumn of 2021. The authors of the article are ESIL members and have previously made reports at its forums. In this review, they analyzed the materials of thematic seminars of “working groups”, “agoras” and “forums” of the Conference. The debates touched upon the impact of the digital revolution on the form and content of international lawmaking, discussed the influx of informal norms and standards in this area, maintaining the integrity of national systems and rationality of “soft law”, spread of the so-called “expert codifications”, ensuring the harmonization of domestic legality and lawmaking of non-state actors, taking into account corporate and civil-public interests in the law-making process, international negotiations and practice of states, demand for interdisciplinary paradigms, approaches and methods in situations of collisions of legal regimes and formation of “living law”. The authors of the review conclude that modern international law is under-going significant “digital recalibration” and is developing on the basis of new technologies from hyperformalism to hyperfactualism.</p>international lawrule-makingsoft lawcodificationinternational treatypractice of statesactorsexpert communityinternational organizationsмеждународное правонормотворчествомягкое правокодификациямеждународные договорпрактика государствакторыэкспертное сообществомеждународные организации