Marie Petersmann

Marie Petersmann

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at LSE Law School

Dr. Marie Petersmann is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at LSE Law School. Her research lies at the intersection of international environmental law, human rights, ecology and critical theory. Her work focuses on the material, subjective, spatial, and temporal boundaries of ecological harms in a changing climate, and explores new strategies for reparative legal actions and climate justice in the Anthropocene. Her project Anthropocene Legalities: Reconfiguring Legal Relations within More-than-human Worlds is funded by a Dutch NWO Veni grant (2022-2025). Her book When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts was published with Cambridge University Press in 2022. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL).

Taught Courses

Open dump Training

Protecting Human Rights and the Environment

Participants in this training course, made of two modules, will examine the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights and the environment, familiarizing themselves with the respective implementation and enforcement mechanisms.

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Videos

Human Rights Conversation : Universally Digital

Human Rights Conversation : Universally Digital

UN Human Rights Mechanisms and Mega Sporting Events: The road to FIFA World Cup 2022 and 2023

UN Human Rights Mechanisms and Mega Sporting Events: The road to FIFA World Cup 2022 and 2023

Russia and Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine