Christine Schw枚bel-Patel
Professor
Public Lectures Coordinator
Co-Director of CCLS
International Law; International Criminal Law; Global Constitutionalism; International Law and the Green Transition; Critical Pedagogy; Law and Political Economy, Aesthetics, Critical Approaches to International Law
School of Law
S2.31, Social Sciences Building
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Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
024 765 75451
In her research and teaching, Professor Schw枚bel-Patel adopts a critical position on contemporary issues of public international law, whether that is global constitutionalism, international criminal law, or climate justice. Her current project aims to uncover the role of law in extractivism and the creation of new energy sacrifice zones in the green transition. Christine's critique is informed by a political economy, post-colonial, feminist, and aesthetics lens. With this, she reveals the international legal power dynamics and their entanglement with material conditions that influence biases of race, class, and gender.
Professor Schw枚bel-Patel has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications, as well as two monographs (, Cambridge University Press 2021 and , Martinus Nijhoff 2011), and two edited collections (, Counterpress 2024) and , Routledge 2014). Her forthcoming book Green Frontiers: The Laws of Extraction in the Green Transition is under contract with Verso. She has published in leading journals, including the European Journal of International Law, The Law Teacher, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Christine is particularly active in organising academic workshops, roundtables, reading groups, and conferences so as to provide a forum to those typically marginalised or excluded in academic settings (on the basis of race, class, gender, disability, or career stage).
To find out more about Christine's current research, you can listen to an episode of the Underworlds podcast on For a discussion about her work on marketing and international justice, you might be interested in an interview with .
For a look at Professor Schw枚bel-Patel's collaborative research project on Rosa Luxemburg and International Law, see the project website. An overview of her collaboration on design ethics can be found on the webpage.