LCIL Friday Lecture ‘The Power of Process: Procedural Fairness in Security Council Decision-making’ by Dr Devika Hovell

Lecture summary:  Dr Hovell will discuss the problem with formalist approaches to the development of a procedural framework for Security Council sanctions decision-making. By examining the values underlying due process protections, it becomes clear that the preferred procedural framework for sanctions decision-making is not the court-based process that many lawyers advocate.

Instead the UN Ombudsperson framework, that has been the subject of considerable criticism by the Court of Justice of the EU, the ECHR and the UN Special Rapporteur for Counterterrorism, holds greater appeal.

Devika Hovell is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the LSE. 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