Hovell, Devika

Dr Devika Hovell  

Department

Position held

Assistant Professor in Law

 

Experience keywords:

United Nations; domestic law; international courts; international humanitarian law; international law; international tribunals; public international law; public law; use of force

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Devika Hovell joined the LSE in 2012 as a Lecturer in Public International Law. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and a Master of Laws from New York University, where she was awarded the George Colin Award. Devika graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours. She served as an Associate to Justice Kenneth Hayne at the High Court of Australia, and as judicial clerk at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. She formerly held lectureships at the University of New South Wales and the University of Birmingham.

Her research interests include the United Nations; the use of force and international humanitarian law; international courts and tribunals; the interface between public law and public international law; and the relationship between international law and domestic law.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7254

Publications

2016

Hovell, Devika (2016) Glasnost in the Security Council: the value of transparency Kutafin University Law Review (KULawR). ISSN 2313-5395

Hovell, Devika (2016) The power of process: the value of due process in Security Council sanctions decision-making Oxford monographs in international law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198717676

Hovell, Devika (2016) Kadi: king-slayer or king-maker? the shifting allocation of decision-making power between the UN Security Council and courts Modern Law Review, 79 (1). 147-166. ISSN 0026-7961

Hovell, Devika (2016) Due process in the United Nations LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers, Working Paper No. 02/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law, London, UK.

2013

Hovell, Devika (2013) The gulf between tortious and torturous: UK responsibility for mistreatment of the Mau Mau in colonial Kenya Journal of International Criminal Justice, 11 (1). 223-245. ISSN 1478-1395

Hovell, Devika (2013) A dialogue model: the role of the domestic judge in security council decision-making Leiden Journal of International Law, 26 (03). 579-597. ISSN 0922-1565

2009

Hovell, Devika (2009) The deliberative deficit: transparency, access to information and UN sanctions In: Farrall, Jeremy, (ed.) Sanctions, Accountability and Governance in a Globalised World. Connecting international law with public law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 92-122. ISBN 9780521114929

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