Devika Hovell

Experience Keywords

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

Research Summary

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.