Professor Christopher Bovis

Professor Christopher Bovis

Professor of Business Law

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • The Law School

Summary

Christopher Bovis JD, MPhil, LLM, FRSA is Professor of International Business Law at the University of Hull. He is an internationally renowned specialist in public sector management, public procurement and public private partnerships. His fields of expertise cover international business, EU law, competition, energy, transport and telecommunications. His research has influenced parliamentary debate, scrutiny and brought responsible change at government level. His work has been published extensively, disseminated internationally and regularly quoted by the Court of Justice of the EU. Professor Bovis has advised the EU, national governments on growth strategy, industrial policy, SMEs and public sector procurement. Professor Bovis was elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 2006, and made a Life Fellow in 2011. He was appointed by the United Nations as Rapporteur to the Millennium Development Commission on Public-Private Partnerships in 2009. He has extensively published peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals, produced internationally acclaimed books and presented numerous papers on his specialisation. Professor Bovis's academic work has been translated into different languages, including Chinese, French and German. He is peer reviewer for legal academic journals such as European Public Law, Common Market Law Review, European Law Journal, Federal Law Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of Business Law and Journal of Public Policy and Administration and Journal of European Integration. He is peer reviewer for the ESRC, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust for evaluation of research grants applications. He is Editor in Chief of the European Procurement and Public Private Partnerships Law Review, published by Lexxion.

Undergraduate - European Union Law - Company Law - Employment Law Postgraduate - International Trade Law 1 - International Trade Law 2 - Equality Law in the European Union - European Union Substantive Law - European Public Law - European Business Law - Market Regulation in the European Union

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

State aid and the evolution of transport law

Bovis, C. (2024). State aid and the evolution of transport law. e-Competitions Antitrust Case Laws e-Bulletin, Article 116819

The Nature and Character of the Public Markets and Their Effects on Public Procurement in the European Union

Bovis, C. (2022). The Nature and Character of the Public Markets and Their Effects on Public Procurement in the European Union. Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 31(4), 9-27. https://doi.org/10.17951/sil.2022.31.4.9-27

Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices

Onyoin, M., & Bovis, C. H. (in press). Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices. Administration and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211030516

Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective

Onyoin, M., & Bovis, C. (2021). Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective. The International journal of public sector management, 34(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-01-2020-0026

Systemic risk in major public contracts

Bloomfield, K., Williams, T., Bovis, C., & Merali, Y. (2019). Systemic risk in major public contracts. International Journal of Forecasting, 35(2), 667-676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2018.10.005

Lead investigator

Project

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Project

H2020 SC-Food 'InnProBio'

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£110,554.00

Started

1 March 2015

Status

Complete

Project

Levelling Up Hull: Assessing and Addressing the Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities for Hull Programme Scope and Outline for Delivery

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£40,000.00

Started

14 June 2021

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

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Managing risk and performance in complex enterprises

Funder

Defence Science Technology Laboratory

Grant

£98,106.00

Started

1 October 2015

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Bovis offers supervision for research degrees in the fields of public procurement, public-private partnerships, international and European business law, competition law, state aid, services of general economic interests and industrial policy. Completed PhDs Sultan AlmasoudSalah FakhrounAbdulla AlzabenAbdullah AlmasfarYasser AlmouhaibdAntoinette CallejaGeorge NwangwuMajed AsiriAhmad AldaafaSooter Nomhange Current PhD supervisors Uzma BhattiKeih CaruthersKhalid AlshaikPeter DjabangSooter NomhangeZiwei ZhangSue RaintonMoses OnyoinKatherine BloomfieldPattarin Kiatkamolkul

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