Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Carraro, V. and Lacatus, C. (2025) ‘National Human Rights Institutions as Expert Actors in Global Human Rights Governance: The Case of the UN Universal Periodic Review’, Global Studies Quarterly, 5(2), ksaf042.
• Carraro, V. (2025) ‘Overlapping Institutions in the United Nations Human Rights System: Mutually Strengthening or Undermining?’, Journal of Human Rights, 24(2), pp. 199-216.
• Carraro, V. (2024) ‘The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Violations of the Right to Integrity of the Person’, Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9(5), pp. 1-11.
• Lacatus, C. and Carraro, V. (2023) ‘National Human Rights Institutions: Independent actors in global human rights governance?’, International Affairs, 99(3), pp. 1167–1189.
• Carraro, V. (2022) ‘The More the Better? The Complementarity of United Nations Institutions in the Fight Against Torture’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 40(4), pp. 354-378.
• Carraro, V. (2019) ‘Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies’, International Studies Quarterly, 63(4), pp. 1079-1093.
• Carraro, V. (2019), ‘Electing the Experts: Expertise and Independence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’, European Journal of International Relations, 25(3), pp. 826-851.
• Carraro, V., Conzelmann, T. & Jongen, H. (2019), ‘Fears of Peers? Explaining Peer and Public Shaming in Global Governance’, Cooperation and Conflict, 54(3), pp. 335-355.
• Carraro, V., and Jongen, H. (2018), ‘Leaving the Doors Open or Keeping them Closed? The Impact of Transparency on the Authority of Peer Reviews in International Organizations’, Global Governance, 24(4), pp. 615-635.
• Carraro, V. (2017), ‘The United Nations Treaty Bodies and Universal Periodic Review: Advancing Human Rights by Preventing Politicization?’, Human Rights Quarterly, 39(4), pp. 943-970.
• Blom, T. and Carraro, V. (2014), ‘An information processing approach to public organizations: The case of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency’, European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 18(1), pp. 1-36.

Books

• Carraro, V. (2017), ‘A Double-Edged Sword: The Effects of Politicization on the Authority of the UN Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies’. Maastricht: Universitaire Pers Maastricht.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Carraro, V. (2025) ‘Expertise’. In Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler, eds., Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations, Edward Elgar, pp. 118-199.
• Carraro, V. (2024) ‘Strengthening the Human Rights Council and the Treaty Body System’. In Markus Kornprobst and Slawomir Redo, eds., Reinvigorating the United Nations, Routledge.
• Carraro, V. (2023) ‘Cooperation Between Human Rights Bodies‘. In Ruiz Fabri, H., ed., Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, Oxford University Press.

Book reviews

• Carraro, V. (2014), Book review of Busuioc, M., Groenleer, M. and Trondal, J. (eds), ‘The agency phenomenon in the European Union: Emergence, institutionalisation, and everyday decision-making’ (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012), Journal of Common Market Studies, 52(3), pp. 702-703.

Web-based publications

• Carraro, V. (2022), ‘The GTGC Conference 2022’, Leiden University
• Carraro, V. and Jongen, H. (2020), ‘Peer review in financial integrity matters’, Global Anticorruption Blog.
• Carraro, V. (2019), ‘When states elect the experts: the case of the UN human rights treaty bodies’, Maastricht University Law Blogs.

Policy papers

• Carraro, V. and Jongen, H. (2020), ‘Background paper on peer review in financial integrity matters’. Consultancy report for the United Nations High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI Panel).