Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel teaches international law at Warwick Law School, where she is Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. She is also a Bye-Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
Her books include Marketing Global Justice and Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective. She is the editor of Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice and Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law: An Introduction.
Christine has written for Jacobin, Al Jazeera, and Teen Vogue.
She is an Editor of the series ‘Critical Perspectives on Law, Culture, Justice’ with Bristol University Press and a Managing Editor of leading critical theory journal ‘Law and Critique’.
‘I research and teach in the fields of international law, critical legal theory, social theory, political economy, aesthetics and pedagogy. My latest work has been on how law structures extractivism, including extractivism of the green transition’.
Recent Writing
The symposium on ‘Rosa Luxemburg and International Law’ that I co-edited was recently published with the London Review of Interantional Law. See the Introduction to the symposium here.
My piece ‘International Law as “Frontier Law”’ is in the special issue, where I reread Rosa Luxemburg’s work on primitive accumulation together with her work on ecology to identify how international law plays a crucial role in enabling extractivism. I use recent interest in rare earth minerals in Greenland as an example.
In a blog post titled ‘Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place’, I discuss what an anti-colonial response to inter-imperial designs on Greenland would look like.
