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<div class="normal-content-container-ejil"> <div class="author-details-ejil"> <div class="author-name-and-social-ejil"> <div class="author-name-container"> <p class="author-name-ejil"> Devika Hovell</p> </div> <div class="author-social-links-ejil">    </div> </div> <div class="author-bio-ejil"> <div class="title-ejil"> <h2>About/Bio</h2> </div> <p>Devika Hovell is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 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. Her book on the Power of Process was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She is a member of EJIL's Editorial Board.</p> </div> </div> <div class="recent-articles-author-ejil"> <div class="title-ejil"> <h2 id="recently-published">Recently Published</h2> </div> <div class="tease tease-post post-tease-ejil" id="tease-24488"> <div class="post-tease-content-ejil"> <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/punishing-sanctions-a-call-to-arms-against-fortress-america/" class="article-link"> <h3>Punishing Sanctions: A Call to Arms Against Fortress America</h3> </a> <div class="featured-date-and-author"> <p>February 25, 2025 </p> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/dhovell"> <p>Devika Hovell</p> </a> </div> <p>Being an international lawyer can sometimes feel like being a librarian in the middle of a riot. You are deeply invested in the idea that there are rules – impeccable legal rules – that, if followed, would make the world a better, more orderly, place. You clutch well-thumbed and thoroughly annotated copies of the Nicaragua case,…</p> </div> <a class="post-tease-link-ejil hvr-sweep-to-bottom" href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/punishing-sanctions-a-call-to-arms-against-fortress-america/">Read more</a> </div> <div class="tease tease-post post-tease-ejil" id="tease-23957"> <div class="post-tease-content-ejil"> <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/some-blog-statistics/" class="article-link"> <h3>Some Blog Statistics</h3> </a> <div class="featured-date-and-author"> <p>October 2, 2024 </p> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/blogeditor"> <p>Dapo Akande</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/nehal-bhuta"> <p>Nehal Bhuta</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/ddesierto"> <p>Diane Desierto</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/dhovell"> <p>Devika Hovell</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/guestcontributor"> <p>Marko Milanovic</p> </a> </div> <p>The blog’s editors, with the help of our Associate Editor Tal Gross, prepared some statistics for the recent annual meeting of the EJIL Editorial and Scientific and Advisory Boards, which may also be of interest to our readers and authors. A summary of the salient points is as follows. In the August 2023-August 2024 period, the blog published…</p> </div> <a class="post-tease-link-ejil hvr-sweep-to-bottom" href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/some-blog-statistics/">Read more</a> </div> <div class="tease tease-post post-tease-ejil" id="tease-23951"> <div class="post-tease-content-ejil"> <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/welcoming-nehal-bhuta-as-editor/" class="article-link"> <h3>Welcoming Nehal Bhuta as Editor</h3> </a> <div class="featured-date-and-author"> <p>September 24, 2024 </p> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/guestcontributor"> <p>Marko Milanovic</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/blogeditor"> <p>Dapo Akande</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/ddesierto"> <p>Diane Desierto</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/dhovell"> <p>Devika Hovell</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/snouwen"> <p>Sarah Nouwen</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/jweiler"> <p>Joseph Weiler</p> </a> </div> <p>We are happy to announce that Nehal Bhuta will be joining us as the fifth co-editor of the blog. Nehal will be well known to our readers, especially because he had already edited the blog, back in its early days. 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He was interrupted by the current President of the UN Security Council who clarified ‘this isn’t called a war, this is called a special military operation in the Donbas’. 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