Smart Sanctions against Russia: Human Rights, Magnitsky and the Ukrainian Crisis
Journal: Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
Year: 2016

In 2012, human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson argued that the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, then recently passed by the U.S. Congress, was one of the most important new developments in human rights.1 Since then, calls have been made for the European Union to pass its own Magnitsky law, a move that would significantly enhance the recently adopted EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. In January 2014, U.S. Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin introduced the Global Magnitsky Human R