Christine Schwöbel-Patel
Professor
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
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
024 765 75451
In her research and teaching, Professor Schwöbel-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 Schwöbel-Patel has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications, as well as two monographs (Marketing Global Justice, Cambridge University Press 2021 and Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective, Martinus Nijhoff 2011), and two edited collections (Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice, Counterpress 2024) and Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law, 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 Frontiers. For a discussion about her work on marketing and international justice, you might be interested in an interview with the New Books Network podcast.
For a look at Professor Schwöbel-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 Design Research Society webpage.