Jonathan Fisher QC, Visiting Professor and Dr Rachel Barnes.

LLM, MSc Accounting and Finance, MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions, MSc Criminal Justice Policy, MSc Law and Accounting, MSc Regulation (Research), MSc Regulation.

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

To examine the development and practice of States' use of economic and financial sanctions against other States and non-State entities from a legal perspective. The course will consider both unilateral measures by individual States and multilateral programmes most notably those established by the UN Security Council and the European Union; the various modes of implementation and enforcement of these programmes on trans-national levels and within domestic legal systems; issues arising in public international law and for fundamental human rights; and the effects on third parties, both in terms of the regulatory costs for businesses and charities and the humanitarian issues for civilian populations and persons connected with targeted entities.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT. One Lecture and one seminar in the ST.

One essay of 2,500 words.

Most source materials are available in the LSE electronic library and access will be facilitated through Moodle. Additional resources are available on the internet. There are two texts for students to consult: Cortright, D. and Lopez, G.A. (eds.), Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft, (Rowan & Littlefield 2002) ISBN 978-0742501430, and Alexander K, Economic Sanctions: Reassessing Public Policy (Palgrave MacMillian, 2007) ISBN 978-0230525559.

One two-hour exam (100%) in ST.