James Patrick Sexton is a junior researcher in public international law at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, a research centre for international and European law based in The Hague, the Netherlands. He holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University and an LL.B. in Scots Law from the University of Glasgow, the latter of which included a year of study at the University of Copenhagen.
At the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, James works within the research strand: ‘In the Public Interest: Accountability of the State and the Prosecution of Crimes’. In this role, he has contributed to several commissioned projects, including the MATRA-Ukraine project, “Strengthening Ukraine’s Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute International Crimes”.
James’ primary research interests are unilateral sanctions, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law, with an overall factual focus on the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. His recent publications address, among others, the securing of funds for Ukraine’s reconstruction through enforcing sanctions violations, as well as the international human rights and security considerations of “Magnitsky Sanctions”.