LLB and LLM Nottingham, PhD Essex
Senior Lecturer, Law Clinic and Research Seminar Co-ordinator, School of Law

Dr. Karen Hulme is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Essex. Karen studied LL.B. Law at the University of Nottingham and decided to specialise in the area of public international law. She achieved her Masters in Public International law also at Nottingham. Karen joined the law school at Essex in 1997 as a Doctoral student and has particular interests in environmental law and the laws of war. Karen was awarded a doctorate in 2002 for her thesis on the protection of the environment in times of armed conflict. Her book entitled, ‘War Torn Environment: Interpreting the Legal Threshold’ won the American Society of International Law’s Francis Lieber Prize for 2004 for ‘outstanding scholarship in the field of the law of armed conflict’.

Karen has taught on the following modules: public international law, international law of armed conflict, law of evidence, tort law, constitutional law, as well as human rights and the environment. Karen also teaches on the inter-disciplinary postgraduate MA/MSc degree in Environmental Governance: The Natural World, Science and Society.

Karen’s research interests include protection of the environment via human rights law and humanitarian law, as well as international law more generally. One research focus is the protection of environmental resources during armed conflict – particularly conflict resources such as minerals and timber.