International Legal Positivism: Nine Myths - Devika Hovell
Location:
Edinbrugh Law School
Date/time
Thu 3 February 2022
14:00-15:30
The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents
International Legal Positivism: Nine Myths
Dr Devika Hovell, Associate Professor of Law, LSE Law School
About the speaker
Devika Hovell is an Associate Professor 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 was formerly a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Director of the international law project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW. She is author of The Power of Process (Oxford University Press 2016) and has published articles in a range of journals, including the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Modern Law Review. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law.
This event will take place IN PERSON at Edinburgh Law School. Places are limited and registration is required (link below).
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