Role
Irene Sacchetti is an Hourly Paid Lecturer at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. Irene teaches Immigration and Asylum Law and International, European and Comparative Law to LLB students
Career overview
Irene Sacchetti is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Climate Change and Refugee Law at Nottingham Law School. In her project “Thinking Beyond Borders in the Kinocene: Reimagining Protection for the Climate Refugee in International Law”, she invites to rethink climate induced (im)mobilities from a decolonial and ecofeminist perspective. Irene graduated in Law cum laude from the University of Bologna (Italy); she previously joined the Potsdam Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies as a Research Fellow, and she worked for the Czech Academy of Sciences and for the Geneva International Centre for Justice. Irene is part of multiple international initiatives for the protection of human and animals' rights, decoloniality and the law.
Research areas
Climate induced (im)mobilities, refugee law, climate change law, decolonial and post-colonial theories, ecofeminism, climate justice, intergenerational and interspecies justice.
External activity
- Climate Justice Hub, Nottingham Law School
- Decolonising Collective, Leiden University
- The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment
- IUCN Early Career Specialist Group 'The future of Environmental Law' and 'Mentorship Programme'
- IUCN Task Force on the Rights of Nature
- Human Rights Pulse
- University of Bologna Law Review
Publications
- SLSA Special Issue Blog Post “Who is the Climate Refugee? Rethinking Identity, Recognition and Protection Under International Law” (forthcoming) - September 2024
- Chapter for the Handbook on Climate Mobilities by A. Bayes and B. Mallick "Rethinking Dominant Narratives on Climate Mobilities: A Cosmopolitan Approach Beyond Binaries, Exclusion, Securitisation and Depoliticization” by Irene Sacchetti, Natalia Chirinos Arévalo and Dinu ushika Yapa Abeywardhana (forthcoming) - August 2024
- NTU Expert Blog "Ruling on state obligations to protect generations from environmental harm is a victory for climate justice" - May 2024 https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2024/04/ehrc-ruling-a-victory-for-climate-justice/_nocache
- NLS Blog Post "Exploring the Untapped potential of Right to Culture for Future Climate Migration Litigations" https://helenhall5.wixsite.com/nls-rights-and-justi/post/exploring-the-untapped-potential-of-the-right-to-culture-for-future-climate-migration-litigation - April 2024
- Providing Legal Advice to Destitute Asylum Seekers who have Exhausted Appeal Rights: Evaluation of the Hope Projects (West Midlands) Legal Service: Final Report by Tom Vickers, Helen O’Nions, Blerina Kellezi, Ernest Acha, Nisan Alici, Irene Sacchetti, Selbi Durdiyeva and Benedict Ekow Ocran - April 2024
- NLS Blog Post "Beyond the Surface Appearance of Words: the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty" https://helenhall5.wixsite.com/nls-rights-and-justi/post/beyond-the-surface-appearance-of-words-the-australia-tuvalu-falepili-union-treaty - December 2023
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-timeCOURSE
Law - LLB (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/nottingham-law-school/ug/llb-law-full-time