Follow the Money but Then What? Rethinking Asset Recovery
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Call for Papers
Follow the Money but Then What? Rethinking Asset Recovery
Journal: Journal of Money Laundering Control
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Submission Opens: 15 May 2026
Submission Deadline: 1 February 2027
Expected Publication: 2027
The Journal of Money Laundering Control invites submissions for a Special Issue examining asset recovery as an evolving legal concept, with particular attention to its effectiveness, legitimacy, procedural safeguards, international cooperation, and role in contemporary financial crime enforcement.
About the Special Issue
Asset recovery has become an increasingly important component of domestic, regional, and international legal frameworks. Traditionally associated with corruption and anti-money laundering enforcement, it now extends across areas including financial crime, sanctions evasion, organized crime, digital assets, confiscation, and cross-border recovery.
Despite stronger enforcement frameworks, recovery rates often remain low, while confiscation measures can create significant legal and social consequences for third parties, families, and economically vulnerable individuals. Recent reforms in jurisdictions such as the EU and UK have also expanded preventive and non-conviction-based confiscation powers, raising important questions around fundamental rights, judicial oversight, procedural safeguards, and proportionality.
This Special Issue seeks to rethink asset recovery beyond its traditional role as an extension of anti-money laundering enforcement and to examine its conceptual foundations, legal mechanisms, effectiveness, legitimacy, and future development.
Key Research Areas
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Conceptual and theoretical foundations of asset recovery
Criminal confiscation
Civil forfeiture
Non-conviction-based asset recovery
Asset freezing, seizure, and confiscation
Asset recovery in corruption cases
Cross-border asset recovery
International cooperation in asset tracing and recovery
Digital assets and cryptocurrencies
Emerging challenges in recovering digital assets
Asset recovery in organized crime
Asset recovery and financial crime
Role of financial institutions in asset tracking
Role of professional gatekeepers
Procedural safeguards and judicial oversight
Fundamental rights in confiscation proceedings
Effectiveness and legitimacy of asset recovery mechanisms
Reform and future directions of asset recovery frameworks
Journal Scope
The Journal of Money Laundering Control focuses primarily on criminological, legal, regulatory, and institutional dimensions of money laundering control and financial crime.
Submissions should make an original contribution to debates in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, financial crime regulation, legal processes, or related areas. Papers focused primarily on accounting, economics, or finance without clear relevance to the journal's scope may not be suitable.
Guest Editors
Dr Andreas Karapatakis — School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
Email: a.karapatakis@liverpool.ac.uk
Dr Dimitrios Kafteranis — Research Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University
Email: dimitrios.kafteranis@coventry.ac.uk
Key Dates
Manuscript Submissions Open: 15 May 2026
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 February 2027
Expected Special Issue Publication: 2027
Accepted papers may be made available through EarlyCite before final issue publication.
Submission Information
Authors should submit manuscripts through the ScholarOne Manuscripts system and select the relevant Special Issue title during submission.
Papers submitted after 1 February 2027 will not be considered for the Special Issue. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or be under consideration elsewhere.
Contact
Potential contributors may contact the Editor-in-Chief to discuss the Special Issue:
Dr Paul Gilmour
Email: paul.gilmour@port.ac.uk
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