PROFILE
Anne Saab joined the Graduate Institute as an Assistant Professor in International Law in 2015. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and has been serving as Co-Director of the LL.M. in International Law programme since 2018. Anne obtained a PhD in International Law from the London School of Economics in 2015, an LL.M. from King’s College London in 2009, and an LLB from Leiden University in 2008. Her areas of interest and expertise include food and agriculture, climate change, intellectual property law and more recently, emotions and international law. Her first monograph entitled, Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Prior to entering academia, Anne worked as a legal advisor and policy officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Economic Affairs and at the Foreign Office in The Hague.
Publications
Books:
- Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge University Press, 2019).
- Emotions and International Law (manuscript in progress)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
- ‘Emotions and International Law’, chapter in Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, Andrew A.G. Ross and Simon Koschut (eds) Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025.
- ‘Hope and Anger in Youth Climate Litigation’ (article in progress)
- ‘Discourses of Fear on Climate Change in International Human Rights Law’ European Journal of International Law, 34(1) 2023: 113-135.
- ‘What’s the Use of Food Regime Analysis for International Law?’ in M. Roberts, Research Handbook on International Food Law, Edward Elgar 2023: 17-28.
- ‘Emotions and International Law’ ESIL Reflections 10(3) (2021).
- ‘Fear and International Law-Making: an Exploratory Inquiry’, co-authored with Andrea Bianchi, Leiden Journal of International Law 32(3) 2019: 351-365.
- ‘GMOs’ in J. Viñuales and E. Lees, Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, Oxford University Press 2019.
- ‘International Law and Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change’, Transnational Legal Theory 9(3-4) 2018: 288-301.
- ‘An International Law Approach to Food Regime Theory’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 31(2) 2018: 251-265.
- ‘Climate-Resilient Crops and International Climate Change Adaptation Law’, Leiden Journal of International Law 29(2), June 2016: 503-528.
- ‘Climate-Ready Seeds and Patent Rights: A Question of Climate (in) Justice?’, Global Jurist 15(2), 2015: 19-35.
- ‘A Legal Inquiry into Hunger and Climate Change: Climate-Ready Seeds in the Neoliberal Food Regime’, PhD thesis, London School of Economics, Department of Law, September 2015.
Book Reviews:
- The Experiences of International Organizations by Jean d’Aspremont (Edward Elgar 2023), International Organizations Law Review (forthcoming 2024).
- Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security by Matias E. Margulis (Stanford University Press,2023), European Journal of International Law 35(1) 2024.
- ‘Reflections on The Sentimental Life of International Law’ Humanity Journal, 2022.
- ‘Managing Facts and Feelings in Environmental Governance edited by Lorenzo Squintani, Jan Darpö, Luc Lavrysen, Peter-Tobias Stoll (Edward Elgar, 2019)', Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 30(1) 2021.
Research Projects
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Div 1 project grant
Title: ‘Emotions and International Law’
Period: September 2023 – September 2027