Professor Christopher Bovis

Professor Christopher Bovis

Professor of International and European 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 engages with national and international parliaments and international institutions on strategic matters of industrial policy, defence acquisitions, assessment of legal frameworks, assurance of compliance and governance. Professor Bovis transferred knowledge in areas such as the Post Office Privatization for the OFT, UK Rail Rolling Stock Capacity for the TUC, the Social Value Act for the Cabinet Office, Enactment of Soft Law for the European Commission, Codification of Intellectual Property and Standards for European Standardization Institutions.

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.

Professor Bovis’ work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy

SDG 9 Industry innovation and infrastructure

SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities

SDG 13 Climate action

SDG 17 Partnerships

Professor Bovis has extensively published 11 monographs, 56 chapters in edited collections and 270 journal articles. He has drafted UK laws and EU laws and Guidance.

Professor Bovis's academic work has been translated into different languages, including Chinese, French, Russian 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 for the European Research Council, the European Science Organization, the Australian Research Council, the Research Foundation Flanders, the Estonian Research Council, the ERSC, the British Academy, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.

He is Editor in Chief of the European Procurement and Public Private Partnerships Law Review, published by Lexxion.

https://epppl.lexxion.eu/

Undergraduate

- European Union Law

- Company Law

- Employment Law

- Emerging Markets

- European Business

Postgraduate

- International Trade and Commercial Law

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- Competition Law

- Equality Law

- European Union Internal Market Law

- European Public Law

- European Business Law

- Market Regulation

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

Research interests

Public sector management, public procurement and public private partnerships, international business and trade law, European Union law, anti-trust, energy, transport and telecommunications, risk management, financial services.

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

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

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

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 since 2009

1.Sultan Almasoud 2009

2.Yasser Almuhaib 2010

3.Abdulla Almasfar 2011

4.Abdullah Alzaben 2012

5.Antoinette Caleja 2014

6.George Nwangwu 2014

7.Ahmad Aldaffaa 2017

8.Majed Asiri 2016

9.Peter Djabang 2016

10.Sooter Nomhwange 2016

11.Ziwei Zhang 2017

12.Yingyao Ma 2017

13.Khalid Alshaik 2018

14.Pattarin Kiatkamolkul 2018

15.Adbulla Almutiri 2018

16.Diễm Nguyễn Thị 2019

17.Nguyen Thanh Hang 2019

18.Keith Caruthers 2020

19.Stuart Addy 2020

20.Moses Onioyn 2020

21.Heba Abdelaziz 2022

22.Christopher Hayes 2022

23.Thi D Nguyen 2022

24.Sultanul Chowhudry 2023

25.Malik Al Jabori 2023

26.Samuel Adutuwum 2023

27.Said Albadi 2023

National/International learned society/body role

FRSA

2006

Life Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing

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