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SUMMARY:The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism - Christine Sc
 hwöbel-Patel\, CRASSH/Warwick Law School
DTSTART:20231121T183000Z
DTEND:20231121T193000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:The extraction of minerals required for the green or just tran
 sition\, including in particular for electric vehicles\, is supported by a
 n infrastructure of legal norms that support and legitimise the concentrat
 ion of wealth. This material aspect of (international) law is very much in
  contrast to the symbolic side of international law that purports to prote
 ct vulnerable nature and people. The exploitative and extractive aspect of
  international law is marked by colonial frontier thinking of expansionism
 . I use two case studies of ‘old’ and ‘new’ frontiers of extractio
 n to demonstrate the imperial structures at play\, namely the DRC and Gree
 nland\, which reveal the dynamics of an UnJust Transition.\n\nAbout the sp
 eaker: Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel is co-Director of the Centre fo
 r Critical Legal Studies at Warwick Law School. She is the author of two m
 onographs Marketing Global Justice (CUP 2021) and Global Constitutionalism
  in International Legal Perspective (Brill 2011) and editor of Critical Ap
 proaches to International Criminal Law: An Introduction (Routledge 2014). 
 Christine’s current research projects focus on the themes of aesthetics 
 and international justice\, imperial rentier capitalism in the green trans
 ition\, and trials of rupture. Rosa Luxemburg’s work and influence runs 
 like a red line through her research and pedagogy. Christine has won two c
 ompetitive stipendiary fellowships for her work on the international law o
 f the green transition: An Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienc
 ed Researchers (2022-2023) and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-2024
 ). She is currently a visiting research at the Centre for Research in the 
 Arts\, Social Sciences and Humanities.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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