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Marie-Catherine Petersmann is a Senior Researcher (permanent) at Tilburg Law School, specializing in international environmental law, human rights, and more-than-human legalities. She holds a PhD and LLM from the European University Institute and an MA/LLM from the Graduate Institute Geneva. Her work bridges legal theory with ecological philosophy, exploring non-anthropocentric normativities and the reconfiguration of legal frameworks in the Anthropocene. She currently leads the NWO Veni-funded project 'Anthropocene Legalities,' examining legal relations within more-than-human worlds.
Education: PhD & LLM (European University Institute), MA/LLM (Graduate Institute Geneva). Prior roles include Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University and Teaching Associate at the University of Glasgow.
Research focuses on critical posthumanism, decolonial studies, and the intersection of climate governance with technology. Her monograph When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide (Cambridge UP, 2022) analyzes judicial conflict management in environmental cases.
Teaching includes courses on international law, research design, and environmental justice at Tilburg Law School. She has also guest-lectured at institutions in Germany, Scotland, and Italy.
Awards include the Swiss Society for International Law Award (2020) and NWO Veni Grant (2022). She co-founded networks like the Theory Hacks Collective and organizes interdisciplinary workshops on decolonial approaches to environmental law.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Istituto Svizzero in Rome on 'more-than-human commoning' and participates in the Earth System Governance Project. Serves as Associate Editor for Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law.
