Celine Tan

Professor

Co-Director of GLOBE

Law and Governance of International Financial Architecture; Sovereign Debt; Climate Change and Sustainable Development; International Financial Institutions; Human Rights

School of Law
S1.34, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 73830

Office Hours (Term 2, 2025 - 26):
Wednesdays, 11am - 1pm

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Scholarship

Celine's research centres on exploring aspects of international economic law and regulation with a focus on international development financing law, policy and governance. She is also interested in the intersections between law and development, gender, human rights and the environment. Celine has published on issues relating to the law and governance of the international financial architecture, sovereign debt, climate change and sustainable development, the role of international financial institutions and human rights. She has worked with international organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Europe, Africa and Asia on issues relating to social and economic development and human rights.

Celine is a founding member of The IEL Collective, a community for scholars and practitioners interested in critical reflection of the interactions between law and the global economy. She is currently leading a project on Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT), a multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at exploring the climate finance supply chain within the context of the multilateral climate change regime, international financial architecture and the multi-layered landscape of international economic law. She is also Principal Investigator on a British-Academy-funded project on Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs). She is also co-convenor of the Warwick Network for Equity and Exchange in Climate Governance and Strategy (NEXUS).

Celine is on the editorial board of Social and Legal Studies and Co-Chair of the Academic Circle on the Right to Development.

Bio

Celine Tan is Professor of International Economic Law. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE)Link opens in a new window based at Warwick Law School. Celine is a founding member of The IEL Collective, a community for scholars and practitioners interested in critical reflection of the interactions between law and the global economy.

Prior to Warwick, she was at the University of Birmingham. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick where she held a Postgraduate Research Fellowship.

Publications Teaching Projects

Funded

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
Equity and the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Transition Partnership (JETP) Framework - ODA challenge	British Academy	28 Jun 2024	24 Dec 2025
International Development and New Financial Frontiers	Independent Social Research Foundation	01 Mar 2019	29 Feb 2020
Privatisation of Aid in International Development (PAID) Research Activities	Society of Legal Scholars	01 Jun 2018	31 Oct 2019
SLSA Seminars Competition 2017-18	SLSA	01 Apr 2018	31 May 2019
International Economic Law in Context Workshop Series SLSA Seminar Competition Series.	SLSA	01 Sep 2015	31 Dec 2016
International Economic Law in Context Workshop Series SLS Seminar Competition Series	Society of Legal Scholars	01 Sep 2015	31 Dec 2016

Highlighted

The IEL Collective

The IEL Collective provides a space for critical reflection on the complex interactions in the growing field of international economic law and exploring how epistemological and methodological diversity in the discipline can contribute towards the development of a more holistic landscape of scholarship on law and the governance of the global economy.

More details are available athttps://go.warwick.ac.uk/ielcollective.

NeF DeF

The New Frontiers in International Development Finance (NeF DeF) project brings together research and policy thinking on how the shifting landscape of international development finance impacts on law, regulation and governance.

More details are available athttps://go.warwick.ac.uk/nefdef.

Impact

International Organisations

Influencing Trade and Development in Climate Crisis: Celine Tan was commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to write a background paper on climate finance, ‘Confronting Climate Change: Towards A New International Agenda for Meeting the Financial Challenges of the Climate Crisis in Least Developed Countries’ to feed into their Least Development Countries'(LDC) Report 2010.

Research Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD supervisees. However, please ensure that you have a research proposal which corresponds with the University of Warwick School of Law requirements. I will be interested in supervising research on international economic law, sustainable development, law and development, international financial regulation and sovereign financing and intersections between law, gender, human rights and the environment.

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