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Marie’s research focuses on reparative legal action and climate justice in the Anthropocene. In 2022, she was awarded a ‘Veni’ grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her project Anthropocene Legalities: Reconfiguring Legal Relations within More-than-human Worlds (2022-2025), which she continues at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. Her work draws on legal theory, ecological philosophy, feminist posthumanism and critical Black studies to explore the potential and limitations of rights-based approaches in environmental litigations.

- Legal theory

- Ecological philosophy

- Feminist posthumanism

- Critical Black studies

(Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights present delicate trade-offs at times when concerns for social and ecological justice are ever more intertwined in environmental and human rights discourses. When Environmental Protection And Human Rights Collide retraces how the legal ordering of environmental protection evolved over time and progressively merged with human rights concerns, thereby leading to a synergistic account of their relation. An ideal of synergy facilitated legal interconnections between environmental protection laws and human rights. This, the book argues, is not a neutral stance, but a framing invested with political meaning about how ‘humans’ ought to relate to and live within ‘nature’. The book explores the world-making effects this framing performs, and the role played by legislators, experts and adjudicators in (re)producing it. While it questions, contextualises and problematises how and why this dominant framing was construed, it also reveals how the conflicts that underpin this relationship – and the victims these conflicts affect – have mainly remained unseen. The book unveils the argumentative tropes and adjudicative strategies used in the environmental case-law of regional human rights courts to understand how these overlooked conflicts are judicially mediated in practice. In doing so, the book opens space for new modes of politics, legal imagination and representation.  

Reviewed in the , , and 

Awarded ‘’ by the Swiss Society for International Law (2020).

(Paris: Éditions Johanet, 2013)

Ce livre aborde les diverses problématiques qui touchent à la reconnaissance du droit humain à l’eau potable. Mais s’agit-il d’un droit à la fois contraignant, universel et autonome ? Pour répondre à cette question, l’auteurice passe en revue l’ensemble des sources du droit international, en portant une attention particulière aux divers documents qui ont été publiés au cours de la dernière décennie, depuis l’observation générale n° 15 du Comité des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels, jusqu’à la Déclaration de Rio+20. Cette analyse détaillée permet de définir la forme, la nature et la portée du droit à l’eau tel qu’actuellement reconnu en droit international. Ces réflexions sur le statut juridique du droit à l’eau permettent ainsi de faire le point sur les avancées progressives enregistrées par celui-ci en termes de reconnaissance et d’application, tout en relevant les lacunes qui persistent.

• ‘’ (2024) 3:1 European Law Open 180–189
• (July 2024), Völkerrechtsblog Symposium ‘ReflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law’ 
• in Alvarez-Nakagawa and Douzinas, (eds.) Non-Human Rights: Critical Perspectives (Elgar, 2024)
• ‘’ (2024) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 15 (1) 1-3  editorial introduction to a co-edited special issue (with contributions by David Chandler, Frédéric Neyrat, Floor Fleurke, and Johan Horst)
• ‘’ (2024) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 15 (1) 4-22 (with Hans Lindahl, Phillip Paiement, Floor Fleurke, Han Somsen, Michael Leach)
•  (2023) AI & Society (with Dimitri Van Den Meerssche)
• Marie Petersmann, ‘’, in M. Arvidsson and E. Jones (eds), International Law and Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024), 222-243 [in Open Access].
• ‘’, (2023) International Journal of Human Rights
• ‘’ (2023) 82:4 Heidelberg Journal of Int. Law [ZaöRV] 769-797
• ‘’ (2022) 33 Law and Critique 319-333 (with Andrea Leiter)
• ‘’ (2022) 11 Earth System Governance 100126 (with Louis Kotzé, Rakhyun Kim, Catherine Blanchard, Joshua Gellers, Cameron Holley, Harro van Asselt, Frank Biermann, Margot Hurlbert)
• ‘’ (2021) 12:1 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 102-124
• ‘ (2021) 28:2 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 7-80
• ‘’ (2021) 9 Earth System Governance 100114
• ‘’ (2021) 21:1 Human Rights Law Review 132-156
• ‘’ (2021) 15:1 Law and Humanities 134-141
•   ‘’ (2020) 4 L’Altro Diritto 39-56 (with Anna Berti Suman)
• ‘’ (2018) 30:2 Journal of Environmental Law 235-259
• ‘’ (2015) 24:1 Italian Yearbook of International Law 191-218
• ‘Citizen Sensing and Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: Engaging with Covid-19 and Climate Change’, in Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero (eds), (Institute of Network Cultures, 2021) 225-240 (with Aanna Berti Suman)
• ‘Is Climate Change a Human Rights Violation?’ in M. Hulme (ed), (Routledge, 2019) 160-173
• ‘Rights and Expertise: Assessing the Managerial Approach of the Court of Justice of the European Union to Conflict Adjudication’ in Freya Baetens (ed), (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 297-320
• ‘When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: Four Heuristics of Conflict Resolution’ in Christina Voigt (ed), (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 239-261‘
• Conflicts between Environmental Protection and Human Rights’ in James R. May and Erin Daly (eds), (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 288-299

- 2020: Swiss Society for International Law, Award for ‘’

- 2019: European Society of International Law (ESIL), , Honorable Mention

- 2018: , Journal of Environmental Law, Honorable Mention

- 2016: , IUCN Academy of Environmental Law

Exhibitions, Re–member the silence, sound & visual installation, Istituto Svizzero, Roma (24 June 2023)

 Live interview, , Radio Couleur 3 (24 May 2023, 2:37:17)

 Curator of the transdisciplinary event ‘’, Istituto Svizzero, Roma (17-18 May 2023)

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, on ‘Mediterranean Ecologies and the Anthropocene’, Palazzo Butera, Palermo (5 October 2022)

EIEL Webinar, ‘’ (26 January 2023)

4^th Rudolf Bernhardt Keynote Lecture, ‘’, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law, Heidelberg (28 October 2022)

Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI) Eco-Talk, ‘’ (16 December 2021)

‘Theory Hacks’ workshop series on , De Ceuvel, Amsterdam, (co-organized with Andrea Leiter and Daniela Gandorfer) (May 2022)

Film Festival Movies That Matter, commentator of the documentary ‘’ (15 April 2022)

2020      , Völkerrechtsblog

2020       Tilburg Environmental Law Blog

2017       BeneLex Blog

Les Matins de France Culture, ‘Jeunesse Socialiste Suisse: Initiative 1/12 sur l’équité salariale’, (July 2013)

LL278 Public International Law

LL305 Jurisprudence

LL4A6 Climate Change and International Law

Affiliated Research Fellow, Tilburg Law School (Netherlands): Member of the ‘Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene’ (CitA) project and PhD Co-Supervisor of Rens Claerhoudt (2022-2026).

Associate Editor, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL) (2019-present)

Member of the ‘Council for the Living’, The Zoönomic Institute & Foundation (2023-present) (2023-present)

, Earth System Governance Project (2019-present)

Project Member, Black Anthropocene Working Group (2020-present)

Member of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) (2019-present)

Member of the World Commission on Environmental Law (IUCN WCEL) (2018-present)

at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2022-2023)

Co-founder of the (with Dr. Andrea Leiter and Dr. Daniela Gandorfer, in collaboration with the Logische Phantasie Lab) (2022-present)

Co-founder of the ‘’ and ‘’ networks, funded by the British Academy