Christine Schwöbel-Patel

Biographic Data

ID1317719
NAMEChristine Schwöbel-Patel
GIVEN NAMESChristine
FAMILY NAMESchwöbel-Patel
SIGNATURESCHWÖBEL-PATEL C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0002-2103-3405
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS17
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Introduction to the Symposium on International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths

    Open AccessRichard Clément, Richard Clements et al.ARTICLEAJIL Unbound2025Cited by: 1

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  • Zwanzig Jahre Völkerstrafgesetzbuch Deutsches Völkerstrafrecht und (dessen) Kolonialität

    Christine Schwöbel-PatelARTICLEArchiv des Völkerrechts2023

    This piece draws on critical theory to examine the possible coloniality of the German Code of Crimes against International Law (CCIL) and its practice. Acting as a translator of international post-colonial scholarship, I draw on perspectives from Third World Approaches to International Law and Critical Race Theory to adopt a critical position on the occasion of the 20-year anniversary of the coming into force of the CCIL. Against the background o…

  • The precarious agency of racialised recaptives

    Open AccessChristine Schwöbel-PatelARTICLELondon Review of International Law2022

    In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter protestors toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour. Debates on monuments, in particular monuments to the men who sustained, supported, and benefited from racialising practices such as the slave trade, continue to divide. In Bristol, where there was agreement on removing the Colston statue from its prominent position, the debate soon moved to the question of who or what shoul…

  • Marketing Global Justice

    Christine Schwöbel-PatelBOOKMarketing Global Justice2021

  • Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice

    Open AccessChristine Schwöbel-PatelARTICLEEuropean Journal of International…2020

  • Disciplinary Matchmaking

    Open AccessPádraig McAuliffe, Christine Schwöbel-PatelARTICLEJournal of International Criminal…2018References: 15

    International criminal law is experiencing what has been termed as a ‘critical turn’. With several states declaring their intentions to withdraw from the International Criminal Court’s constituting treaty in 2016, it seems that critique has never been more timely or necessary. The body of work roughly grouped under an approach referred to as critical approaches to international criminal law has contributed to the debate by foregrounding a structu…

  • The 'Ideal' Victim of International Criminal Law

    Open AccessChristine Schwöbel-PatelARTICLEEuropean Journal of International…2018Cited by: 16References: 3

    The role of victims is increasingly central to discussions in and practices of international criminal law.Greater attention is, I argue, leading to a visual and discursive specification of victimhood.Drawing on criminologist Nils Christie's theorizing of victimhood, and identifying practices inside and outside the international criminal law courtroom, I discuss the social, political, and legal construction of an 'ideal' victim.The features of an …