Sam Adelman

Professor

Legal Theory; Development; Human Rights; Climate Change

School of Law
S2.23, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 23101

Consultation hours:
Term 1, Tuesday 12.00-14.00

Scholarship

Professor Adelman's primary areas of teaching and research are climate change and international development law and human rights.

Bio

Professor Adelman has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard University and Warwick University. He was banned, detained and exiled during the struggle against apartheid. He is a visiting professor at North-West University and Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. He is a member of the senior editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. He has been a Fulbright scholar and was awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2020.

Publications Teaching Projects

Title	Funder	Award Start	Award End
The role of rights in achieving climate justice and sustainable development	British Academy	1 Sept 2020	31 Dec 2021
Beyond Development: New Imaginaries in Social Justice	Kuwait International Law School	01 Apr 2016	30 Apr 2016
Legal & Economic Aspects of Sovereign Debt Default: The Argentina Case	ESRC	01 Oct 2006	31 Jan 2009
Contextual Diversity: Word Processing As Memory Retrieval	ESRC	01 Dec 2005	30 Nov 2006

Research Supervision