Karin Mickelson
Associate Professor
A.B. (Duke), LL.B. (UBC), LL.M. (Columbia)
- Office:
Allard Hall, Room 340
- Phone: 604 822 6165
- Email: mickelson@allard.ubc.ca
Profile
Karin Mickelson joined the Faculty as Assistant Professor in 1991 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998. She has taught in the areas of international law, international environmental law, real property, environmental law and legal theory, and has supervised and co-supervised graduate students in a wide range of areas including international environmental law, international legal theory and international human rights. She has also served as the faculty advisor to UBC teams participating in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Professor Mickelson research activities have focused on the South-North dimension of international law; for example, she has explored the possibility of identifying a distinctive Third World approach to international law in "Rhetoric and Rage: Third World Voices in International Legal Discourse" (1998) 16 Wisconsin International Law Journal 353-419, and has analyzed the failure of international environmental law to respond to the concerns of the South in "South, North, International Environmental Law, and International Environmental Lawyers" (2000) 11 Yearbook of International Environmental Law 52-81.
Her current research focuses on the impact of developing countries on the evolution of international environmental law. She is also a contributor to leading Canadian casebooks on international law and environmental law.
Publications
 | Karin Mickelson “Common Heritage of Mankind as a Limit to Exploitation of the Global Commons” Full text: (2019) 30 Eur. J. Int'l L. 635-663 |
 | Karin Mickelson “The Maps of International Law: Perceptions of Nature in the Classification of Territory” Full text: (2014) 27:3 Leiden J Int'l L 621-639 |
 | Karin Mickelson “Rethinking Modes of Diffusion and Research and Teaching Methods: A TWAIL Perspective” in Mark Toufayan, Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet & Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, eds., Droit International et Nouvelles Approches sur le Tiers-Monde: Entre Répétition et Renouveau Paris: Paris: Société de législation comparée, 2013 |
 | Douglas C. Harris & Karin Mickelson “Finding Nemo Dat in the Land Title Act: A Comment on Gill v. Bucholtz” Full text: (2012) 45:1 U.B.C. L. Rev. 205-222 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Karin Mickelson “Beyond a Politics of the Possible? South-North Relations and Climate Justice” Full text: (2009) 10 Melbourne J. Int'l L. 411-423 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Karin Mickelson “Competing Narratives of Justice in North-South Environmental Relations: The Case of Ozone Layer Depletion” in Jonas Ebbesson & Phoebe Okowa, eds., Environmental Law and Justice in Context Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 pp. 297-315 UBC Library Location Online Access (with full-text) SSRN Abstract |
 | Karin Mickelson, Ibironke Odumosu & Pooja Parmar “Foreword: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Workshop: Situating Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Inspirations, Challenges and Possibilities” Full text: (2008) 10:4 Int'l Community L. Rev. 355-362 |
| Karin Mickelson “Taking Stock of TWAIL Histories” Full text: (2008) 10:4 Int'l Community L. Rev. 355-362 SSRN Abstract |
 | Karin Mickelson “Critical Approaches” in Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée & Ellen Hey, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 pp. 262-290 UBC Library Location |
 | Hugh M. Kindred & Phillip M. Saunders, gen. eds. Jutta Brunnée, Robert J. Currie, Ted L. McDorman, Armand L.C. deMestral, Karin Mickelson, René Provost, Linda C. Reif, Stephen J. Toope, & Sharon A. Williams International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 7th ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2006 UBC Library Location |
 | Karin Mickelson “Leading Towards a Level Playing Field, Repaying Ecological Debt, or Making Environmental Space: Three Stories about International Environmental Cooperation©” Full text: (2005) 43 Osgoode Hall L.J. 137-170 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Karin Mickelson “Tribute to Ivan L. Head” Full text: (2004) 42 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 423-424 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2002-3 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 2002-3” Full text: (2003) 41 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 525-567 UBC Library Location |
 | Karin Mickelson “Co-opting Common Heritage: Reflections on the Need for South-North Scholarship” in Obiora Chinedu Okafor & Obijiofor Aginam, eds., Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003 pp. 112-124 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
 | Karin Mickelson & William Rees “The Environment: Ecological and Ethical Dimensions” in Elaine L. Hughes, Alastair R. Lucas, & William A. Tilleman, eds., Environmental Law and Policy, 3d ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2003 pp. 1-40 UBC Library Location |
 | Antony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mickelson, Obiora Okafor, eds. The Third World and International Order: Law, Politics and Globalization Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2001-2 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 2001-2” Full text: (2002) 40 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 557-582 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2000-1 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 2000-1” Full text: (2001) 39 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 553-585 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1999-2000 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1999-2000” Full text: (2000) 38 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 419-443 UBC Library Location |
 | Hugh M. Kindred, eds. Karin Mickelson, Ted L. McDorman, René Provost, Armand L.C. deMestral, Linda C. Reif, & Sharon A. Williams International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 6th ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2000 UBC Library Location |
 | Karin Mickelson “South, North, International Environmental Law, and International Environmental Lawyers” (2000) 11 Y.B. Int'l Env. L. 52-81 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1998-99 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1998-99” Full text: (1999) 37 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 409-424 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1997-98 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1997-98” Full text: (1998) 36 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 477-491 UBC Library Location |
 | Karin Mickelson “How Universal is the Universal Declaration?” Full text: (1998) 47 U.N.B.L.J. 19-48 UBC Library Location |
 | Karin Mickelson “Rhetoric and Rage: Third World Voices in International Legal Discourse” Full text: (1998) 16:2 Wis. Int'l L.J. 353-419 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1996-97 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1996-97” Full text: (1997) 35 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 411-416 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1995-96 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1995-96” Full text: (1996) 34 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 447-456 UBC Library Location |
 | Karin Mickelson “Seeing the Forest, the Trees and the People: Coming to Terms with Developing Country Perspectives on the Proposed Global Forests Convention” in Canadian Council on International Law, ed., Global Forests and International Environmental Law London: Kluwer Law, 1996 pp. 239-264 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1994-95 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1994-95” Full text: (1995) 33 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 425-428 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 1993-94 / La jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 1993-94” Full text: (1994) 32 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 357-364 UBC Library Location |
| Karin Mickelson “Rereading Trail Smelter,” Case Comment Full text: (1993) 31 Can. Y.B. Int'l Law 219-234 UBC Library Location |
Organization Affiliations
- Centre for Law and the Environment
Research Interests
- Environmental law, natural resources, and climate change
- International law
- Law and development