Publications Archives

23 January 2026

Sanctions Litigation before the European Union’s Court of Justice

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By Francesca Finelli, The International Spectator, January 2026, pp. 1–20.

23 January 2026

L’apparente ambivalenza del ricorso a ‘sanzioni’ unilaterali/plurilaterali: sintomo di frammentazione (o disgregazione) del sistema internazionale o conseguenza della sua natura decentrata?

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By Antonio Bultrini in Antonino Alì (ed), Le sanzioni dell’UE nei confronti della Russia tra sicurezza internazionale e diritti umani, Nomos-Giappichelli, 2025.

23 January 2026

The Belarusian Dilemma. Should the EU follow the United States in easing sanctions on Minsk?

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By Yuliya Miadzvetskaya, GMF Paper, December 2025. Should the EU follow the United States in easing sanctions on Minsk?

22 January 2026

The European Union’s Unprecedented Sanctions Against Russia: Legal and Institutional Implications

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by Peter Van Elsuwege and Celia Challet

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19 December 2025

The EU Anti-coercion Mechanism: A Tool for Development or Fragmentation of International Law?

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By Petr Stejskal, in Eva Kassoti, Teresa Cabrita and Narin Idriz (eds), The European Union and Regionalism, BRILL, 2025.

19 December 2025

Walking a Tightrope: On the Legal Stakes of the EU’s Proposed Reparations Loan to Ukraine

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By Peter Van Elsuwege, Verfassungsblog, December 2025.

5 December 2025

EU sanctions and Russia’s frozen assets

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By Maruša T. VEBER, European Parliament study, 2025.

5 December 2025

Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions

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Edited by Clara Portela, Professor of Political Science, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, University of ValenciaAndrea Charron, Professor of International Relations and Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of ManitobaMirko Sossai, Professor of International Law, Department...

28 November 2025

Leaving the EU Sanctions List: How Evidence-Based Judicial Review Facilitates Opportunistic Changes in Circumstances

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by Yuliya Miadzvetskaya, European Law Review, 2025

27 November 2025

Building Norms of Economic Coercion

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By Elena Chachko and Abraham Newmann, Journal of International Economic Law, 2025

27 November 2025

Alternative Financial Systems and the Reshaping of Global Finance

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By Kinga Redlowska and Tom Keatinge, RUSI Insights Papers, 2025.

27 November 2025

Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly

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By Clara Portela, Michal Onderco and Valerio Vignoli, Contemporary Security Policy, 2025.

27 November 2025

Sanctions and democracy—Economic peace revisited

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by Dawid Walentek, Contemporary Security Policy, 2025.

27 November 2025

How Russia’s war against Ukraine changed EU sanctions decision-making

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By Emilia Korkea-aho and Luigi Lonardo, Journal of European Integration, 2025

7 July 2025

‘Energy Sanctions Reloaded: Navigating the Trade-Sanctions Divide in the EU’s Proposed Gas Ban’

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by Viktor Szép and Lukas Schaupp, Verfassungsblog, 25 June 2025

20 June 2025

Op-Ed: “No Links, Still Listed: Reflections on AG Medina’s Opinions in Russian Leading Businesspersons Cases”

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by Celia Challet, EU Law Live, 18 June 2025

5 June 2025

Futureproofing Human Rights Symposium: Innovative Accountability Mechanisms for Addressing Human Rights Violations Abroad – A Case Study of the UK

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by Yifan Jia and John Binns, OpinioJuris, 30 May 2025

3 June 2025

The interplay between unilateral sanctions and the UN Human Rights Committee

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by Yifan Jia, Australian Journal of Human Rights 30(2), 2025, pp. 323-328

3 June 2025

EU sanctions decision-making in times of war: Procedural changes and rise of the Commission

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by Yuliya Miadzvetskaya, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, May 2025

16 May 2025

The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia

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by Clara Portela, Stefano Palestini, Cooperation and Conflict, 2025

16 May 2025

Aid Sanctions and Hybrid Regimes

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by Clara Portela and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti, The Journal of Development Studies, 2025, 1-24

7 March 2025

The gender dimension of EU sanctions against Russia

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by Luigi Lonardo

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7 February 2025

Violations of EU Sanctions and Criminal Penalties: Proportionality at Peril?

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by Francesca Finelli and Lorenzo Bernardini, in L. Grossio, S. Montaldo and V. Mitsilegas (eds.), Proportionality of Criminal Penalties in EU Law, Hart Publishing, 2025.

16 January 2025

The European Union can lawfully prohibit the provision of certain legal services to Russian entities

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by Luigi Lonardo in Revue du Contentieux Européen, Issue 3, 2024

16 January 2025

Sanctions from the Perspective of the Right to Property. Confiscation of Assets

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by Petr Stejskal and Martin Faix, in P. Šturma (ed.), International Sanctions and Human Rights, Springer, 2024

16 January 2025

How far may the Council go to combat sanctions circumvention? Recent CJEU rulings on the restrictive measures against Russia

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by Celia Challet in EU Law Live, November 2024

16 January 2025

Coming Home to Roost: The Growth of BRICS and the Quest for De-Dollarization

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by Alexandra Hofer in E-international relations, November 2024

16 January 2025

Le principe d’autorité de la chose jugée dans le droit et le contentieux des mesures restrictives

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by Celia Challet, in A. Turmo (ed.), L'autorité des jugements en droit européen, Larcier, 2024

16 January 2025

War and International Investment law: Possible Breaches and Possible Defences for Economic Sanctions against Russia

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by Iryna Bogdanova and Rodrigo Polanco, Transnational Dispute Management Journal, Issue 4, 2024

16 January 2025

The Uncertain Contours of Member States’ Obligation to Ensure that EU Restrictive Measures are not Circumvented

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by Francesca Finelli, in G. Adinolfi, A. Lang, C. Ragni (eds.), Sanctions by and Against International Organizations: Common Issues and Current Developments, Larcier, 2024

16 January 2025

Judicial Challenges to EU Restrictive Measures by Individual State Organs, ‘Emanations of Non-EU Member States’ and Third Countries: The Limits to the Council’s Discretion

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by Sara Poli, in G. Adinolfi, A. Lang, C. Ragni (eds.), Sanctions by and Against International Organizations: Common Issues and Current Developments, Larcier, 2024

16 January 2025

EU Sanctions Policy: A Legal Appraisal in Light of the EU’s Strategic Autonomy Doctrine

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by Federico Casolari, in G. Adinolfi, A. Lang, C. Ragni (eds.), Sanctions by and Against International Organizations: Common Issues and Current Developments, Larcier, 2024

22 November 2024

Regional Organizations and the Non-Mandated Sanctioning of Member States: The Case of the League of Arab States Sanctions against Syria

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by Alexandra Hofer, in G. Adinolfi, A. Lang, C. Ragni (eds.), Sanctions by and Against International Organizations: Common Issues and Current Developments, Larcier, 2024

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22 November 2024

Op-Ed: ‘How far may the Council go to combat sanctions circumvention? Recent CJEU rulings on the restrictive measures against Russia’

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by Celia Challet

24 September 2024

UN Arms Embargoes under Scrutiny

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by Judith Vorrath SWP Research Paper 2024/RP 12, 2024