Marie Petersmann
mariepetersmann.bsky.social
Marie Petersmann
@mariepetersmann.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at LSE Law School (@lselaw.bsky.social)

International law, ecology, and climate justice.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/marie-petersmann
📣 LSE Staff & Student Rally to demand Divestment ‼️

Join us tomorrow 25 Nov at 12.30 to protest against LSE's continued and *increasing* investments in the arms trade, crimes against the Palestinian people and the climate breakdown.

The staff petition is still open:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Join us tomorrow 13 November 6-7.30pm at @lselaw.bsky.social for a discussion on the 'Recognition of the State of Palestine – Contested Interpretations'.

Register here and come along!

lselaw.events/event/recogn...
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
At ELU-S Plenary on 'Sustainability, Social Justice and Democracy' last week in Prague, I talked about the repression against social movements for climate justice and the end of the genocide in Gaza, and the use of terrorism-labels to proscribe their actions, inspired by the activism of Conor Gearty
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
With more than half a million people in London to march for Gaza and call on the British government to end its complicity in genocide.
May 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The #BritishPavilion — curated by Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, and Owen Hopkins — was awarded a Special Mention #LaBiennale for #GeologyofBritannicRepair

I'm here for a 2-day workshop on #InhumanReparations Kathryn co-organised w/ Elsa Noterman and Archie Davies at the Pavilion👇
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Looking forward to this 2-day workshop on 'Amazon of Rights: Global Jurisprudence in Times of Urgency'.

Thanks to Luis Eslava, Cecilia Oliveira, Igor Karim and Michael Riegner (@rifs-potsdam.bsky.social) for bringing us all together.
May 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Excited to welcome Nath Gbikpi (Senior Associate Solicitor @leigh-day.bsky.social) to @lselaw.bsky.social to deliver the 1st of 3 Masterclasses on:

Who Can Come, Who Can Stay, Who Must Go: A Practical Introduction to UK Immigration Law

LSE students & alumni register👇

lselaw.events/event/who-ca...
March 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
'Ernest Cole: Lost & Found' – an amazing film (again) by Raoul Peck, not to be missed.

Another Q&A at the BFI tonight at 6pm:

releasing.dogwoof.com/ernest-cole-...
February 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Join us on Wednesday 5-6:30pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a panel w/ King Okpabi—leader of the Ogale community from the Niger Delta—about the ongoing #Shell trial

w/ Zoe Johannes (Leigh Day), @markdummett.bsky.social (Amnesty International) & Zainab Rahim (RAID)

Register: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
February 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Shoutout to Nehal Bhuta who since 2020 is curating these online gatherings for former and current PhD supervisees.

We met weekly during lockdown and monthly since to discuss draft papers, PhD chapters, book proposals, conference presentations, perform mock job talks and read books together...
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Join us tomorrow 1-5pm for a workshop on 'Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon' organised by David Chandler and Farai Chipato.

Followed by a book launch and panel discussion with Ritu Vij, Mustapha Pasha, me and authors 6-8pm:

www.westminster.ac.uk/events/book-...
February 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Our latest #Underworlds episode is now out 🎙️

*Hope* as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering

with Claire Colebrook and David Chandler:

open.spotify.com/show/7Ao1I3Q...

On what expressions of hope—speculative, pragmatic or nihilist—are foregrounded against the receding horizon of liberal hope.
January 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM