Patrick Pearsall Writes About the International Compensation Mechanism for Ukraine for Just Security
Article | May 8, 2026
Just Security
Partner Patrick Pearsall has authored “The International Compensation Mechanism for Ukraine: Update on the Convention Establishing an International Claims Commission and the Register of Damage for Ukraine” for Just Security. Patrick was nominated by Ukraine’s President Zelensky to develop an international compensation mechanism for Ukraine and led the effort to propose and design Ukraine’s civil reparations strategy soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
He notes that Ukraine “is now transformed from a political proponent of the reparations framework into a formal participant in the legal architecture designed to implement it” and adds that “as the institutional architecture for deciding claims is consolidated, the evidentiary base feeding into it is being rapidly scaled up. Together, they signal a shift from largely symbolic institution-building toward a more functional system capable of handling the full scope—and scale—of Ukraine’s prospective reparations claims.”