Alumni Masterclass: Globalisation and its
Impact on National Legal Systems
Thursday 16 May 2024 | 12:00 (UK Time) | Online – Microsoft Teams
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We are excited to bring back our Alumni Masterclass series, giving you, our Hull grads, an exciting glimpse into the work, research or teaching of a University of Hull academic. In this session we will be hearing from the University of Hull’s Christopher Bovis, Professor of International and European Business Law. He will be talking to us about the impact of global trade and globalisation on national legal systems.

Globalisation has been based on the assumption that free trade is beneficial for national and regional systems. However, globalisation and the fully-fledged neo-liberal approach to market integration in international trade, has revealed significant side effects which were not previously accessed. The emerging assumption is that free trade does not always serve national interests. Recent political developments in the European Union, particularly in Great Britain and in the USA have verified that assumption and have opened up the fundamental debate related to globalisation and the ensuing principle of market access and its implications on international trade.

Alumni Masterclass: Globalisation and its
Impact on National Legal Systems
Thursday 16 May 2024 | 12:00 (UK Time) | Online – Microsoft Teams
Book now >>

Biography: Professor Chris Bovis

Christopher Bovis JD, Dip Econ, MPhil, LLM, FRSA is Professor of International and European Business Law at the University of Hull. He is internationally renowned specialist in public sector management, public and defence procurement and public private partnerships.

He has acted on behalf of public sector and industry on numerous high profile projects. He has been instrumental in structuring flagship public-private partnerships in the UK, EU and overseas. He has published extensively in international legal and management journals and has produced numerous monographs and articles on European and international business subjects. He is Editor in Chief of European Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships Law Review, published by Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft. He is the author of The Law of EU Public Procurement, by Oxford University Press, Public Procurement: Case Law and Regulation, by Oxford University Press, The Research Handbook on EU Public Procurement Law by Elgar, and Public Private Partnerships in the EU, Routledge. His academic work has been translated into different languages, including Chinese, French, Russian and German.