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Devika Hovell is an Associate Professor in international law at the London School of Economics. She specialises in international criminal law (including universal jurisdiction), international dispute resolution and procedure, Security Council practice and procedure, sanctions and the law relating to the use of force. She has written numerous articles for leading journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, the Modern Law Review, the British Yearbook of International Law and Current Legal Problems. Her book, The Power of Process, was published by Oxford University Press and examines the value of due process in Security Council sanctions decision-making. Devika has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and an LLM from New York University, where she was awarded the George Colin Award for distinction in the LLM programme. Devika is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law and is one of the four editors of the leading international law blog, EJIL:Talk.