Staff Profile:Prof. Christopher J. Hilson

Name:

Professor Christopher J. Hilson

Job Title:

Professor, Head of School

Responsibilities:

Professor Hilson became Head of School at the School of Law in August 2009.

He currently teaches the following courses:

• LLB: Foundations of EU Law
• LLM: European Legal Frameworks

Postgraduate Research Students Supervised

• Vicky Bowyer (awarded 2002) LLM by research on Environmental Impact Assessment 
• Tim Moorhead (awarded 2011) PhD, Values and Legal Order: The Institutional Role of the European Court of Justice 
• Clemens Rieder (awarded 2012) PhD, Access to Health Services in EU Law 
• Amy Jackson (2008-) PhD, Critical Legal Pluralism and Veiling
• David Yuratich (2011-) PhD, Democracy and the Court of Justice

Areas of Interest:

UK and EU Environmental Law and Policy; Law and Social Movements; Law and Climate Change; EU Law

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• 'UK Climate Change Litigation: Between Hard and Soft Framing', in S Farrall, T Ahmed and D French (eds), Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change (Onati series) (Hart 2012) 47-61
• "Climate Change Litigation: An Explanatory Approach (Or Bringing Grievance Back In)", In F Fracchia and M Occhiena (eds), Climate Change: La Riposta del Diritto, (Editoriale Scientifica, Naples 2010),  421-436.
• "EU environmental solidarity and the ecological consumer: towards a republican citizenship", in Y. Borgmann-Prebil and M. Ross, Promoting Solidarity in the European Union (OUP) 2010 136-150.
• " Risk And The European Convention On Human Rights : Towards A New Approach", The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2008-2009, Volume 11 (Hart Publishing 2009), 353-375.
• "Framing the Local and the Global in the Anti-Nuclear Movement: Law and the Politics of Place", (2009), 36(1) Journal of Law & Society, 94-109.
• "Let's Get Physical: Civil Liability and the Perception of Risk", (2009), Journal of Environmental Law, 21, 33-57 (doi:10.1093/jel/eqn027).      
• "Rights and Principles in EU Law: A Distinction Without Foundation?", (2008) 15(2), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 193-215.
• "Environmental Citizenship", in P. Cane and J. Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP, Oxford 2008).
• "Going Local?  EU Law, Localism and Climate Change", (2008) 33(2) European Law Review, 194-210.
• "The Unpatriotism of the Economic Constitution? Rights to Free Movement and Their Impact on National and European Identity", (2008), 14(2) European Law Journal, 186-202.
• "Legitimacy and Rights in the EU: Questions of Identity", (2007) 14(4) Journal of European Public Policy, 527-543.
• "Policies, the Non-Fetter Principle and the Principle of Substantive Legitimate Expectations: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?" (2006) 11(4) Judicial Review 289-293.
• "EU Citizenship and the Principle of Affectedness", in R. Bellamy, D. Castiglione and J. Shaw (eds.), Making European Citizens: Civic Inclusion in a Transnational Context (London: Palgrave, 2006).

Recent Conferences/Seminars:

• 'SLAPPS in the UK: Closing or Creating Legal Opportunity', workshop on 'Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization', British Academy, London, 26-27 April 2012.
• 'SLAPPS in the UK', workshop 'Activists on Trial: A Franco-British Dialogue', IEP, Rennes, 23-24 March 2012.
• 'Common But Differentiated Responsibilities in EU Climate Change Law: A Case of Double Standards?', Bristol EC-International Law Forum, 'International Responsibility: EU and International Perspectives', 12-13 May 2011, University of Bristol.
• 'Domestic Standards and Domestic Court Rulings in the Environmental Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: Global Legal Pluralism in Action?', Workshop, 'Changing Subjects: Rights, Remedies and Responsibilities of Individuals Under Global Legal Pluralism', EUI, Florence', 7 May 2011.
• Climate Change Litigation: An Explanatory Approach (Or Bringing Grievance Back In)", Climate Change Conference, Bocconi University, Milan, 19 November 2010.
• "Climate Change Litigation: A Social Movement Perspective", Workshop on Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change, IISL, Onati, Spain, 29-30 April 2010.
• "Legal Framing and Social Movement Research: An Overview and an Assessment", ECPR Joint Sessions 2009, Lisbon, 14-19 April 2009.
• "Risk and Human Rights Before the ECHR: Towards a New Approach", Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), University of Cambridge, 25 February 2009.
• "Framing the Local and the Global in the Anti-Nuclear Movement: Law and the Politics of Place", Journal of Law & Society, Special Edition 2009 Workshop on "Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localisation, Cardiff Law School, 10-11 September 2008. 
• "Environmental Solidarity and the Ecological Citizen", Modern Law Review workshop on 'Seeking Solidarity in the European Union - Towards Social Citizenship and a European Welfare State?', University of Sussex, 7 May 2008
• "Climate Change - A Legal Perspective", Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, 3 March 2008
• "A full list of publications and proceedings is available by clicking here (PDF File 32Kb).

Qualifications:

B.A. (Cambridge), M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Sheffield)

Biographical Details:

Chris Hilson joined the School of Law 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 Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield involved a study of pollution control in its regulatory context.

Other Activities:

Editor, Journal of Environmental Law, (2007-)

Legal Adviser to ClientEarth

Member of the editorial board of the Review of European Administrative Law (Europa Law Publishing) (2007-)

Book reviews editor, Journal of Environmental Law (2002-2007)

Book reviews editor, Environmental Law Review (2001-2002)

Involved in completed research project "Strategies of Civic Inclusion in Pan-European Civil Society" as part of part of the ESRC research programme "One Europe or Several? The Dynamics of Change Across Europe