Weronika Chrzanowska

Email: weronika.chrzanowska.18@ucl.ac.uk

I am a PhD student at the Faculty of Laws, working under the supervision of Professor Jane Holder.

My research project is a legal-geographical investigation of urban agriculture, and its working title is ‘Allotments, Community Gardens, and the Law’. My goal is to understand how environmental law can be used to support and scale up sustainable and transformative practices. I am supported by the Faculty’s Research Scholarship.

I hold an LLB (1st class) and an LLM in Environmental Law and Policy (Distinction) from UCL. I wrote my Bachelor’s thesis about spatial injustices enabled by Environmental Impact Assessment.  My Master’s thesis analysed whether participatory budgeting in Warsaw can be considered an institutionalisation of the right to the city.

Research Supervisors:

• Professor Jane Holder
• Dr. Karen Nokes

Research interests:

• Environmental Justice
• Ecofeminism
• Political Ecology
• Commons
• Property Law
• Socio-Legal Studies
• Law and Political Economy
• Critical Legal Theory
• Legal Geography

UCL Associations/Academic and Professional Memberships:

• UCL Centre for Law and Environment
• UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

• Socio-Legal Scholars Association

Conference papers and presentations:

• ‘Thinking ‘From’ Allotments: Making Another Environmental Law’ at the Critical Legal Conference (2023)
• ‘Losing the Plot: Allotments, Environmental Law, and the Nature/Culture dichotomy’ at the 6th UCL-KCL Environmental Law Symposium (2023)

Experience:

I have experience in providing legal research assistance and have taught on a number of courses and workshops for undergraduate students.