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New films set to boost effective adoption of Health Impact Assessments
22 July 2024
Expert voices from planning, health, government and consultants, including the University of Bristol Law School’s Dr Edward Kirton-Darling, share their insights into using Health Impact Assessments as a force for good in creating healthier new communities.
- New films set to boost effective adoption of Health Impact Assessments 22 July 2024 Expert voices from planning, health, government and consultants, including the University of Bristol Law School’s Dr Edward Kirton-Darling, share their insights into using Health Impact Assessments as a force for good in creating healthier new communities.
- Study examines how to characterise Decentralised Autonomous Organisations to inform future law reform 12 July 2024 The Law Commission has published a Scoping Paper on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs). The paper, compiled by the Commercial and Common Law team, led by Commissioner Professor Sarah Green, looks into how DAOs can be characterised and how the law of England and Wales might accommodate them now and in the future. The research seeks to identify current issues around DAOs to inform any future law reform or innovations.
- Publication: ‘The Functions of International Adjudication and International Environmental Litigation’ by Dr Joshua Paine 24 June 2024 Cambridge University Press has published ‘The Functions of International Adjudication and International Environmental Litigation’ by the Law School’s Dr Joshua Paine. The book offers a timely, in-depth analysis of the law and practices of different international courts and tribunals, and of the key challenges they face in the settlement of environmental disputes.
- Professor Foluke Adebisi shortlisted for Law Teacher of the Year 2024 20 June 2024 Foluke Adebisi, Professor of Law at the University of Bristol Law School, was among the finalists celebrated at the prestigious Law Teacher of the Year 2024 awards, held last week at the Oxford University Press Celebrating Excellence in Law Teaching conference.
- Melanie Pottle Iddon among Bristol Teaching Awards winners 10 June 2024 Melanie Pottle Iddon, PhD Candidate at the Law School, was among the University of Bristol staff thanked for their “brilliance and wonderful teaching” at the 2024 Bristol Teaching Awards.
- Bristol just transition trailblazers make tracks for Bonn Climate Change Conference 5 June 2024 The Law School's Dr Alice Venn is among three climate change experts from the University of Bristol set to champion inclusivity and ensuring a fair shift to a net zero economy at a major United Nations summit – the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany this week.
- Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells appointed to NHS Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel 29 May 2024 The Law School’s Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells has been appointed to the National Health Service England’s Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel, set up to ensure that procurement processes for healthcare services are transparent, fair and proportionate.
- Publication: ‘Digital Technologies and Public Procurement’ by Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells 7 May 2024 Oxford University Press has published a new book by Professor of Economic Law Albert Sanchez-Graells. ‘Digital Technologies and Public Procurement: Gatekeeping and Experimentation in Digital Public Governance’ offers an in-depth assessment of public procurement digitalisation, challenging the emerging consensus that procurement is a useful tool of digital regulation - and proposes alternative methods of digital technology regulation.
- Research shows veterinary deal would increase UK agri-food exports to EU by more than a fifth 25 April 2024 A veterinary deal with the European Union could increase UK agricultural and food exports by more than a fifth, according to new research co-authored by the Law School’s Dr Greg Messenger and Aston University Centre for Business Prosperity’s Professor Jun Du and Dr Oleksandr Shepotylo.
- Success for Professor Alan Bogg and UNISON's legal team in landmark UK Supreme Court Labour Law Case 23 April 2024 The Law School’s Professor of Labour Law Alan Bogg appeared in the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday 17 April, as part of UNISON's legal team acting on behalf of a care worker in an important right to strike case.