---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 288j"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "288j"
heading: "International Development Law Institute"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/288j"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations"
---

# §288j. International Development Law Institute


For purposes of the International Organizations Immunities Act ([22 U.S.C. 288](/usc/22/288.md) and following), the International Development Law Institute shall be considered to be a public international organization in which the United States participates under the authority of an Act of Congress authorizing such participation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–511, title VIII, § 805, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3353.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The International Organizations Immunities Act, referred to in text, is title I of act Dec. 29, 1945, ch. 652, 59 Stat. 669, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 288 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992, also known as the FREEDOM Support Act, and not as part of the International Organizations Immunities Act which comprises this subchapter.