Follow the Money but Then What? Rethinking Asset Recovery

Call for Papers

Follow the Money but Then What? Rethinking Asset Recovery

Journal: Journal of Money Laundering Control
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 February 2027

Journal of Money Laundering Control invites submissions for its Special Issue on Follow the Money but Then What? Rethinking Asset Recovery.

About the Special Issue

Asset recovery has become a cornerstone of national and international efforts to combat financial crime, corruption, and money laundering. As legal frameworks continue to evolve, growing attention is being given to the effectiveness, legitimacy, and fairness of asset recovery mechanisms, particularly in the context of digital assets, cross-border enforcement, and non-conviction-based confiscation.

This Special Issue seeks original research that rethinks asset recovery as an independent legal discipline rather than merely a component of anti-money laundering frameworks. It welcomes interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship examining legal principles, policy reforms, international cooperation, procedural safeguards, and emerging challenges in asset recovery across jurisdictions.

Topics of Interest

Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptual and theoretical foundations of asset recovery

• Criminal confiscation and civil forfeiture

• Non-conviction-based asset recovery

• Asset freezing, seizure, and confiscation

• Asset recovery in corruption cases

• Cross-border asset recovery

• International legal cooperation

• Digital assets and cryptocurrencies

• Asset recovery in organised and financial crime

• Financial institutions and gatekeepers in asset recovery

• Reform of asset recovery frameworks

• Legal safeguards and judicial oversight

Preferred Article Types

The journal welcomes:

• Original Research Articles

• Comparative Legal Studies

• Critical Legal Analyses

• Legal Discourse Papers

Submission Information

• Manuscript Submission Opens: 15 May 2026

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 February 2027

• Manuscripts must be submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts submission system.

• Authors should select the appropriate Special Issue during the submission process.

• Papers must align with the aims and scope of the Journal of Money Laundering Control.

• All submissions must strictly follow the journal's official Author Guidelines.

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

• Papers submitted after the submission deadline will not be considered for the Special Issue.

Guest Editors

• Andreas Karapatakis, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, UK

• Dimitrios Kafteranis, Research Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University, UK

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