Dr. Alexandra Hofer

Assistant Professor
International and European Law
a.s.hofer@uu.nl

Edited volume

  • Tom Ruys, Olivier Corten (eds), and Alexandra Hofer (assistant editor), The Use of Force in international law – a case-based approach (Oxford University Press 2018), including book chapter: 'The Suez Canal Crisis – 1956'

Journal articles

Contributions to edited volumes

  • ‘Regional Organizations and the Non-Mandated Sanctioning of Member States: The Case of the League of Arab States Sanctions Against Syria’ in G. Adinolfi, A. Lang, C. Ragni (eds), Sanctions by and against Regional Organizations (Intersentia, forthcoming)
  • ‘Violence at a Distance: Correcting International Law’s Short-Sighted Vision of Economic Coercion’ in K. Kirkham, Routledge Handbook on the Political Economy of Sanctions (Routledge, 2024)
  • ‘Unilateral Sanctions as a Challenge to the International Legal Order’ in A. Bultrini, F. Giumelli, C. Portela and M. Sossai, International (Unilateral) Sanctions in a Multidisciplinary Perspective Legal, Economic-financial and Political Implications (Routledge, 2024)
  • ‘Unilateral sanctions as a challenge to the law of state responsibility’ in Charlotte Beaucillon (ed.), Research Handbook on Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021)
  • 'The Punitive Effect of the EU’s Restrictive Measures against Russia: A Help or a Hindrance for Principled Pragmatism?', in Fabienne Bossuyt and Peter van Elsuwege (eds), Principled Pragmatism in Practice: The EU’s Policy towards Russia after Crimea (Brill 2021);
  • ‘War of Wor(l)ds – Clashing Narratives and Interpretations of I(H)L in the Intractable Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’, in Mats Deland, Mark Klamberg and Päl Wrange (eds), International Humanitarian Law and Justice: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Routledge 2018)

     

Blog posts

  • with Mohammed Kanfash, ‘Sanctions as Violence’ E-IR
  • 'What Future for Unilateral Sanctions?' Futuribles (in English and translated in French)
  • ‘Targeting of Russian Individuals to End the War in Ukraine’ Tijd voor Mensenrechten
  • ‘Defending a Rules-Based International Order? The EU’s Adoption of Restrictive Measures in Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine’ RENFORCE blog
     

Commentaries and Book reviews

  • 'Bogdanova, Iryna: Unilateral Sanctions in International Law and the Enforcement of Human Rights: The Impact of the Principle of Common Concern of Humankind. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff 2022' (2023) Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
  • 'Review of Gavin Sullivan, The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law' (2022) 33(2) European Journal of International Law 704
  • ‘Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Qatar v. United Arab Emirates): Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures (I.C.J.)’ (2018) 57 International Legal Materials 973.

Selected presentations (with video link):

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Hofer, A. (2024). UNILATERAL SANCTIONS AS A CHALLENGE TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER. In International Sanctions in Practice: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1 ed., pp. 63-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387589-4

2023

Scholarly publications

Hofer, A. (2023). The EU and Its Member States at War in Ukraine? Collective Self-defence, Neutrality and Party Status in the Russo-Ukraine War. European Papers- A Journal on Law and Integration, 8(3), 1697-1740. https://doi.org/10.15166/2499-8249/737
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/438369/EP_eJ_2023_3_SS2_5_Alexandra_Hofer_00737.pdf?sequence=1
Hofer, A. (2023). Violence at a Distance: Correcting International Law’s Short-Sighted Vision of Economic Coercion. In K. Kirkham (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions (1 ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003327448-12
Hofer, A. (2023). The EU’s ‘Massive and Targeted’ Sanctions in Response to Russian Aggression, a Contradiction in Terms. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 1-21. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/cel.2023.9

2020

Scholarly publications

Hofer, A. (2020). The Proportionality of Unilateral “Targeted” Sanctions: Whose Interests Should Count? Nordic Journal of International Law, 89(3-4), 399-421. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-89030008
Hofer, A. (2020). All the World’s a Stage, and Sanctions the Merely Props: an Interactional Account of Sender-Target Dynamics in the Ukrainian Crisis. International Peacekeeping, 28(2), 259-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2020.1753513
Hofer, A. (2020). Creating and contesting hierarchy: the punitive effect of sanctions in a horizontal system. Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, (125), 15-37. https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2020.125.2.15/en