Karen Morrow

Karen Morrow LLB, LLM was educated at the Queen’s University of Belfast and King’s College London. She has lectured at Buckingham, Durham and Leeds Universities and at Queen’s University of Belfast. She has been Professor of Environmental Law at Swansea University since 2007. Her research interests focus on theoretical and practical aspects of public participation in environmental and sustainability law and policy, ecofeminism, gender and the environment and interdisciplinary climate change governance. Her current work focuses on ecofeminist approaches to the challenges of the anthropocene, with particular emphasis on climate change. She has published extensively in these areas, including ‘CoP26 and Beyond: Participation and Gender - More of the Same?’ (2023) Transnational Legal Theory’ DOI: 0.1080/20414005.2023.2171347, Oxford Bibliographies "Ecofeminism and International Law" (2022) Ecofeminism and International Law - International Law - Oxford Bibliographies and ‘Gender in the global climate governance regime: A day late and a dollar short?’ in Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Annica Kronsell (eds) Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States, (2021)Routledge. She is a series editor for Critical Reflections on Human Rights and the Environment (Edward Elgar) and a member of the international advisory board for the cross-disciplinary Gender and Environment series (Routledge). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, the Environmental Law Review and the University of Western Australia Law Review. She is a member of the Wales Net Zero 2035 Challenge Group and the Welsh Government’s Hinkley Point C (nuclear power plant) Stakeholder Reference Group.