Marie Petersmann
Dr. Marie Petersmann is Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School. Her work lies at the intersection of international law, ecology, and critical theory. Her research focuses on the material, subjective, spatial, and temporal boundaries of ecological harms and explores legal strategies for climate justice and ecological repair against the backdrop of the Anthropocene. In 2022, she was awarded a ‘Veni’ grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her project Anthropocene Legalities: Reconfiguring Legal Relations within More-than-human Worlds (2022-2025). She is the author of When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts (Cambridge University Press 2022). She is Associate Editor of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL) since 2019.
Background
Marie holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and an LLM in International Law from the Graduate Institute (Geneva). Prior to the LSE, she was Senior Researcher at Tilburg Law School (2020-2023), Resident Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2022-2023), Postdoctoral Fellow at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in Utrecht (2019-2020), and Teaching Associate at the Strathclyde Center for Environmental Law and Governance in Glasgow (2018-2019).
Research Interests
- International Law and Ecology
- Climate Litigation
- Critical Legal Theory
- Feminist posthumanism
- Critical Black studies