Read here about Professor Chris Hilson's research on climate change law and policy.
Current Research Grants
project (with other Reading and external partners), commissioned under the (TUKFS), 2023-2025.
Chris Hilson
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Professor
- Teaching the following LLB modules: Tort, EU Law
- Division Impact Lead, 2016-2024
- Research Division Lead 2022-2024
- Ref UoA Lead 2024-
Areas of interest
- Law and Climate Change
- UK, EU and Comparative Environmental Law and Policy
- Law and Social Movements
- EU Law
Postgraduate supervision
Postgraduate research students supervised:
- Kristin Qui (2024-) Just Transition and SIDS
- Yuzi Wang (2024-) Forest-based Climate Litigation
- Liam Bagshaw (awarded 2024) International Disasters Law
- Juliana Velez-Echeverri (awarded 2024) Climate-Induced Displacement and Resettlement and Human Rights in Colombia
- Robert Muthami (2023-) Adaptation finance in Kenya (Jointly with the Walker Institute)
- Selam Abebe (awarded 2022) Climate Justice and International Climate Compliance
- Behnam Balalimood (awarded 2018) PhD, EU Long-term Resident's Directive
- Congcong Xu (awarded 2017) PhD, Law and Climate Geoengineering
- David Yuratich (awarded 2014) PhD, Democracy and the Court of Justice
- Clemens Rieder (awarded 2012) PhD, Access to Health Services in EU Law
- Amy Jackson (awarded 2012) PhD, Critical Legal Pluralism and Veiling
- Tim Moorhead (awarded 2011) PhD, Values and Legal Order: The Institutional Role of the European Court of Justice
- Vicky Bowyer (awarded 2002) LLM by Research on Environmental Impact Assessment
Background
Professor Chris Hilson joined the School of Law of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 in 1996 from the Environmental Services Association, where he acted for a short time as a policy advisor to the waste industry. Prior to that he was a lecturer in law at the University of Leeds from 1993-1996.
His PhD from the University of Sheffield involved a study of pollution control in its regulatory context. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Law from 2008-2012 and has acted as an adviser on environmental law to NGOs including ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth.
His current research interests are in the areas of UK, EU and comparative environmental law and policy, climate law, and law and social movements.
Academic qualifications
BA (Cambridge), MA (Cantab), PhD (Sheffield).Professional bodies/affiliations
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Environmental Law (OUP) 2012-
- Editor, Journal of Environmental Law (2007-2012)
- Legal Adviser to
- Member of the editorial board of the Review of European Administrative Law (Europa Law Publishing) (2007-2019)
Research Impact