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Karen Hulme is a Professor at the University of Essex's Essex Law School, where she has been affiliated since 2001. She holds a PhD from Essex (2002), an LL.M. in Public International Law from Nottingham (1996), an LL.B. from Nottingham (1995), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice (2006). Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental law, armed conflict, and human rights, with particular emphasis on climate change governance, biodiversity conservation, and remediation of conflict-related environmental damage.
Her scholarly work explores environmental protection mechanisms during military operations, human rights frameworks for ecological governance, and legal responses to emerging threats like fracking and marine litter. She collaborates extensively with NGOs including the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) and chairs the IUCN WCEL Specialist Group on Peace, Security and Conflict.
Professor Hulme's publications demonstrate sustained focus on developing legal frameworks for environmental protection in conflict zones, with recent work addressing energy justice and planetary crises. She received the American Society of International Law's Francis Lieber Prize (2004) for her book War Torn Environment: Interpreting the Legal Threshold.
Current PhD Students:
- Enitan Adetutu Lawson
- Charles Williams Junior Mensah
- Reimagining Food Systems (ESRC, 2024)
- Implementing ILC Principles on Environmental Protection in Conflict (ESRC IAA, 2022)
- Litter Law Strategy (CPRE, 2016)
