Lecturer
BSc (Memorial), BComm, (Dalhousie) LLM, PhD (Kent)

Email: troy.lavers@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2333

Troy joined the faculty in September 2002 having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her PhD is focused on the Legitimacy of Extraterritorial Measures in International Law. Her research interests include an analysis of jurisdiction in International Public Law, as well as International Criminal law, certain aspects of Constitutional Law and Critical Legal Studies. She teaches on the International Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Learning Legal Skills modules. She also is the convenor for the LLM module International Courts and Tribunals. Troy is the external examiner for the University of Coventry MA program on Diplomacy, Law and Global Change and also teaches the module Law of International Organisations at Paris X Nanterre.

Research Interests

International Public Law, International Criminal Law, Economic Sanctions and certain aspects of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Feminst Perspective of International Law

Selected Publications

• The Security Council’s Predetermination of the Crime of Aggression: a New Chapter in the Same Old Story of Dominate States, in G. Oduntan (ed), Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Critical Perspectives of Law of the Bush/Blair World. Routledge-Cavendish, forthcoming 2010.
• [Pre]Determining the Crime of Aggression: Has the Time Come to give the International Criminal Court its Freedom. 71 (1) Albany Law Review. 2008. 299-319.
• Extraterritorial Offences and International Law: The Argument for the Use of Comity in Jurisdictional Claims. 14 (1) Southwestern Journal of International Law. 2007.1-24.
• Extraordinary Rendition and the Self Defence Justification: Time to Face the Music. 16 (2) Michigan State Journal of International Law. 2007.385-410.
•  “Jurisdictional Issues in Extraterritorial Criminal Law”, in Waters, C. ed. Canada–UK Perspectives on International Law. (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006). ISBN 978-9-0041-5381-3.
• Considerations of Extraterritorial Economic Sanctions: Law as a Smart Bomb or Just a Tool or Coercion. RUSI Journal October 2001 Vo1.146 No.5 p17
• Americanisation of the "Rule of Law" and Cuba. The Socialist Lawyer. Summer 2001 Number 33 p22.