Thea Coventry LL.M.

Researcher

  • Department:
    Researchers
  • Research strand: Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security
  • Main fields of interest: International and Transnational Crimes International Arms Control Law Maritime Security Transnational Criminal Law

Profile

Thea is a researcher in international law at the Asser Institute within the research strand ‘Regulation in the public interest: disruptive technologies in peace and security’. Thea’s research focuses on international arms control agreements and their compliance. Her research interests include international arms control law, maritime security, and transnational criminal law.

Thea is currently completing her doctoral thesis at the law department of Leiden University. Her doctoral research investigates the role of accidental and strategic textual ambiguity in the progressive development and codification of legal rules in the field of State criminal jurisdiction. From a public international law perspective, the thesis examines two subsequent uses of ambiguity in multilateral treaties addressing serious crimes. Firstly, to promote accountability for extraterritorial ‘atrocity’ crimes, and secondly, to expand extraterritorial enforcement powers at sea.

Prior to joining the Asser Institute, Thea worked for five years at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. During her candidature, Thea taught bachelor and master level courses in public international law and supervised master theses. Thea holds an LL.M from Maastricht University in Globalisation and Laws (cum laude). She is also a qualified Australian lawyer.

Publications

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 ‘Appropriate Measures at Sea: Extraterritorial Enforcement Jurisdiction over Stateless Migrant Smuggling Vessels’, in Maritime Safety and Security Law Journal 7 (2020).

 ‘Article 30. Prosecution, adjudication and sanctions’, in The United Nations Convention against Corruption: A Commentary, C. Rose, M. Kubiciel and O. Landwehr (eds), Oxford University Press (2019).

 ‘Pre-Trial Detention: Assessing European Union Competence under Article 82(2) TFEU’, in New Journal of European Criminal Law 29 (2017).

 ‘A brief analysis of the Palermo Protocol Definition of Trafficking in Persons’, in Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 29 (2016).

‘Complementary Protection: the role of courts in expanding protection to ‘environmental refugees’ in domestic asylum regimes, in Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration, K. Rosenow-Williams and F. Gemenne (eds), Routledge (2016).

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