Dr. Marie Petersmann

Biography

Marie Petersmann is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she leads the Sustainability Law Clinic as part of the Global School of Sustainability. Her work primarily focuses on international law, ecology, and critical theory. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and an LLM from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Marie has authored the book 'When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management in Regional Courts' published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL) and is a series editor for Amsterdam University Press. Prior to her position at LSE, Marie was a Senior Researcher at Tilburg Law School, a Resident Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome, and has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in Utrecht. She has significant research interests in reparative legal actions for climate justice, the Anthropocene, and integrating ecological philosophy, feminist posthumanism, and critical Black studies into her legal research.

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