Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Birmingham Law School
Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

Contact details

Email
a.cavoski@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski’s research interests are in the field of environmental law and EU law, including certain aspects of public international law. Her research agenda is inter-disciplinary and explores the intersection of law and other disciplines, in particular politics, science, public policy and language. Aleksandra is the College of Arts and Law Director of Global Engagement. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Law Review.

Aleksandra Cavoski is also a part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics.  This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, engineers, philosophers, linguists, economists, artists, writers, lawyers, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications


  • LLB - University of Belgrade, School of Law
  • MSC European Studies - London School of Economics
  • PhD in Law - University of Belgrade, School of Law

Biography

Aleksandra Cavoski joined the Birmingham Law School in September 2012. Previously she was Professor at Union University School of Law in Belgrade, Serbia and a Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia and at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. She has worked in the Ministry of Justice in Serbia and as a consultant for the World Bank, European Commission and the OSCE.

Teaching

  • LLB Environmental Law
  • LLB Legal Foundations of the European Union
  • LLB Land Law
  • LLM Environment and Energy Law
  • LLM Law and Language

Postgraduate supervision

Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.

Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.

Current PhD students
• Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the context of WTO legal system
• Indria Wahyuni - Impacts of the Decentralisation on Oil and Gas Mining Activities in Indonesia
• Ryan Dean - Hydraulic fracturing, environmental harm and public health
• Menes Muzan - Rethinking Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law and its Implications on the Legal Framework for Combating Desertification in Nigeria
• Love Alfred – Making the case for the Local Content use for Renewable Energy Development in Developing Countries
• Edward Clay - Understanding Translation as a Propagating Factor in Contact-Induced Language Change through Diachronic Corpora of English, French and Italian Texts on the Subject of Migration Produced by the European Union Institutions

Find out more - our PhD Law  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

Dr Cavoski's principal research interests are in the field of environmental law and EU law, including certain aspects of public international law. Her research agenda is inter-disciplinary and explores the intersection of law and other disciplines, in particular politics, science, public policy and language. She is also particularly interested in how law is affected by the social context in which it is formulated and implemented.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Cavoski, A, Ahuja, J & Lee, R 2024, 'Just Energy Transition and the planning and Permitting of Critical Mineral Extraction', Journal of Planning & Environment Law, vol. 2024, no. 1, pp. 3-19. <https://uk.westlaw.com/Document/ID941B400930711EEA0FAEA4205B5F994/View/FullText.html>

Holden, L, Cavoski, A & Lee, R 2024, 'Legal Barriers to new methods of chemical testing' elaw.

Cavoski, A, Colbourne, J, Holden, L & Lee, R 2024, 'Precision toxicology: new approach methodologies for chemical safety', Bio-Science Law Review, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 101-107. <https://www.lawtext.com/publication/bio-science-law-review/contents/volume-19/issue-3>

Cavoski, A, Lee, R & Holden, L 2024, 'The Role of Epistemic Communities in Formulating EU Policy – the Case of PrecisionTox Project', Transnational Environmental Law.

Page, J, Whaley, P, Bellingham, M, Birnbaum, LS, Cavoski, A, Fetherston Dilke, D, Garside, R, Harrad, S, Kelly, F, Kortenkamp, A, Martin, O, Stec, A & Woolley, T 2023, 'A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants', Environment International, vol. 173, 107782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782

Harper, GDJ, Kendrick, E, Anderson, PA, Mrozik, W, Christensen, P, Lambert, S, Greenwood, D, Das, PK, Ahmeid, M, Milojevic, Z, Du, W, Brett, DJL, Shearing, PR, Rastegarpanah, A, Stolkin, R, Sommerville, R, Zorin, A, Durham, JL, Abbott, AP, Thompson, D, Browning, ND, Mehdi, BL, Bahri, M, Schanider-Tontini, F, Nicholls, D, Stallmeister, C, Friedrich, B, Sommerfeld, M, Driscoll, LL, Jarvis, A, Giles, EC, Slater, PR, Echavarri-Bravo, V, Maddalena, G, Horsfall, LE, Gaines, L, Dai, Q, Jethwa, SJ, Lipson, AL, Leeke, GA, Cowell, T, Farthing, JG, Mariani, G, Smith, A, Iqbal, Z, Golmohammadzadeh, R, Sweeney, L, Goodship, V, Li, Z, Edge, J, Lander, L, Nguyen, VT, Elliot, RJR, Heidrich, O, Slattery, M, Reed, D, Ahuja, J, Cavoski, A, Lee, R, Driscoll, E, Baker, J, Littlewood, P, Styles, I, Mahanty, S & Boons, F 2023, 'Roadmap for a sustainable circular economy in lithium-ion and future battery technologies', Journal of Physics: Energy, vol. 5, no. 2, 021501. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/acaa57

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Boyron, S & Cavoski, A 2024, Contraindre l’État à agir face au dérèglement climatique au Royaume-Uni. in D Costa (ed.), Contraindre l’Etat a agir face au dérèglement climatique. XLV edn, vol. 2022, Annuaire europeen d'administration publique, vol. 45, Les Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille (PUAM), pp. 303-327. <https://presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr/annuaire-europeen-dadministration-publique-ndeg45-annee-2022>

Commissioned report

Holden, L, Lee, R & Cavoski, A 2024, Report on Socio-technical Barriers to the Uptake of NAMs. <https://precisiontox.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/D6.1-Report-on-Socio-Technical-Barriers-26Jan.pdf>

Cavoski, A, Holden, L & Lee, R 2024, Report on Solutions to existing Roadblocks for usage of NAMs in Regulation (Action Plan). PrecisionTox. <https://precisiontox.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0411-D6.3-Report-on-Solutions.pdf>

Editorial

Mathisen, GH, Bearth, A, Jones, LB, Hoffmann, S, Vist, GE, Ames, HM, Husøy, T, Svendsen, C, Tsaioun, K, Ashikaga, T, Bloch, D, Cavoski, A, Chiu, WA, Davies, HG, Giusti, A, Hartung, T, Hirabayashi, Y, Hogberg, HT, Joglekar, R, Kojima, H, Krishnan, K, Kwon, S, Osborne, OJ, Roggen, E, Rooney, AA, Rousselle, C, Sass, JB, Sepai, O, Simanainen, U, Thayer, KA, Tong, W, Wikoff, D, Wright, F & Whaley, P 2024, 'Time for CHANGE: system-level interventions for bringing forward the date of effective use of NAMs in regulatory toxicology', Archives of toxicology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-024-03802-6

Other contribution

Holden, L, Cavoski, A & Lee, R 2024, 2nd Commission Conference - pre-read roadmap development: Outreach activities and involvement of the stakeholders.. <https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/events/roadmap-phasing-out-animal-testing-chemical-safety-assessments-second-workshop-2024-10-25_en>

Ahuja, J, Cavoski, A & Lee, R 2023, Local Content Requirements and the Green Economy. LexisNexis. <https://plus.lexis.com/api/permalink/51a0c194-e7da-42a8-82ed-f1d3f987428e/?context=1001073>

Review article

Holden, L, Lee, R, Orsini, L, Eastwood, N, Zhou, J & Cavoski, A 2024, 'Biodiversity Management Challenges: A Policy Brief', Environmental Law Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614529241247361

Page, J, Whaley, P & Cavoski, A 2023, 'Reforming the UK Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988', Environmental Law Review, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614529221146622

Cavoski, A, Holden, L & Lee, R 2023, 'Reviewing science-based decisions: CWS Powder Coatings GmbH v European Commission', Environmental Liability - Law, Policy and Practice, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 16–22.

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Expertise

  • EU Accession Countries (Wester Balkans) with regard to environmental law and policy
  • Environmental Law 
  • EU Law 
  • Law and language with particular focus on multilingual translation in the EU
  • The intersection of law and other disciplines, in particular politics, science, public policy and language in the area of environmental law