This page contains selected excerpts from the academic review by S. N. Khrameshin of Dmitry S. Belkin’s monograph International Construction Law. The full Russian review is published as a separate PDF document and serves as the documentary source for all language versions.
Monograph under review
Dmitry S. Belkin. International Construction Law: Academic Monograph. Moscow: Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, 2025.
DOI of the English edition: 10.64457/icl.en
Reviewer
Father Sergiy (Sergey N. Khrameshin) — Rector of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, Professor of International Law, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor in Theoretical and Historical Legal Sciences.
Brief description of the review
In his academic review, S. N. Khrameshin evaluates Dmitry S. Belkin’s monograph as a scholarly work intended for academic and professional use in the field of international construction law, cross-border infrastructure projects, public-law regulation, procedural discipline and evidentiary work.
Selected excerpts from the review
I have reviewed Dmitry Semyonovich Belkin’s academic monograph International Construction Law (Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, 2025) and offer this assessment as a scholarly work intended for academic and professional use.
The subject is inherently complex, because cross-border construction and infrastructure projects unfold primarily within the coordinates of public international law — against the backdrop of state sovereign powers, international obligations, and public interests — and therefore require an analysis that preserves the link between the norm, the procedure, and the verifiable fact.
At the same time, the real “life of a project” unfolds both in public-law and contractual dimensions: permitting and supervisory procedures, interaction with public authorities, compliance with mandatory requirements, as well as notices, recording of circumstances, documentation, calculations, and evidence, where the future evidentiary record is formed.
The author consistently demonstrates that a legal construction produces effect only where it is supported by procedure, documentation, and a verifiable evidentiary foundation, and that this rule operates most strictly where the cost of error is measured in time, money, and reputation.
In the Anglo-American professional environment, this logic is particularly persuasive, because it aligns with the requirement of traceable evidence and with the habit of testing any proposition through documents, notices, and the factual records of a project.
For the construction sector, this point is fundamental: legal precision here is not ornament and does not reduce to formal over-caution, but serves as a condition of project controllability and predictability of outcome.
From a practical perspective, the sections on the “nodal” elements of legal project support in the logic of public international law are particularly valuable: interaction with public authorities and mandatory procedures, proper recording of legally relevant circumstances, as well as notices, minutes, verifiable calculations, and procedural junctions shaping the trajectory of a conflict.
The editorial decision deserves special mention: the academic monograph has been published simultaneously in Russian, English, Spanish, German, and Hebrew.
I authorise publication of this review in full or in excerpts, including brief quotations, in print and digital materials and within the electronic editions of the monograph, provided that meaning is preserved and the reviewer is credited.
Academic significance of the review
The review is important as an external academic assessment of a monograph devoted to international construction law, international construction contracts, FIDIC, cross-border infrastructure projects, public-law obligations of states, legal support of construction projects and evidentiary discipline in construction disputes.
About the author of the monograph
Dmitry S. Belkin is a scholar, lecturer and practitioner in international construction law, international construction contracts, FIDIC, EPC contracts, construction arbitration and cross-border infrastructure projects.