Dr Aleksandra Cavoski

Dr Aleksandra Cavoski

Birmingham Law School
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone (2)
+44 (0) 121 414 3585
Email
a.cavoski@bham.ac.uk
Address
Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Aleksandra Cavoski’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of Environmental and EU law. She has particular interest in EU accession countries.

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

  • Environmental Law - Module leader
  • LLM Environment and Energy Law – Module leader
  • LLM Research methods - Co-ordinator
  • Legal Foundations of the European Union – Seminar leader
  • Land Law – Lecturer

Postgraduate supervision

Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in Environmental and EU law, particularly:

  • the enforcement of EU environmental law and how it differs from the challenges of enforcement at the international level;
  • 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

  • Ryan Dean - Hydraulic fracturing, environmental harm and public health
  • Benjamin Czapnik - WTO rules on subsidies and the environment
  • Indria Wahyuni - Impacts of the Decentralisation on Oil and Gas Mining Activities in Indonesia
  • Menes Muzan - Rethinking Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law and its Implications on the Legal Framework for Combating Desertification in Nigeria
  • Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the context of WTO legal system
  • 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 the comparative experiences in Western Balkans countries as they undergo the accession process in environmental law and policy. Related to the accession process are issues of legal translation in the EU and how language is used to translate different legal cultures.

Publications

Books

  • Suzanne Kingston, Veerle Heyvaert and Aleksandra Čavoški, European Environmental Law Cambridge University Press 2017

Articles

  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Legal Language and EU Integration. The Case of the Western Balkans”, JLL 7 (2018), pp. 70–96, DOI: 10.14762/jll.2018.070
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “The unintended consequences of EU law and policy on air pollution”, RECIEL 2017, 26(3), pp. 255–265.
  • Veerle Heyvaert and Aleksandra Čavoški, “UK Environmental Law Post Brexit” in Michael Dougan (ed.), The UK After Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges, Intersentia, 2017
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “An Assessment of Compliance Strategies in the Environmental Policy Area”, European Law Review 2016 2, pp. 252-274;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Idealism or Realism in the Process of EU Enlargement - the Case of Serbia”, East European Quarterly 2015 43(4), pp. 265-289;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Interaction of Law and Language in the EU”, JoSTrans  2017 27, pp. 58-74;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “The Environmental Challenges of EU Enlargement: Implementing the Waste Acquis in Serbia”, Journal of European Environmental and Planning Law 2014 11(1), pp. 49-68;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Development of Environmental Law and Policy in Serbia” in Violeta Besirević (ed.) Public Law inSerbia: Twenty Years After, European Public Law Series, Volume CI, Esperia Publications Ltd, London, 2012, pp. 259-283;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Groundhog Day in Serbian Public Administration: Another Year of Reform”, European Review of Public Law/Revue Européenne de Droit Public, Vol. 23(4), winter/hiver Annual Review 2011, pp. 1487-1506;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Transposition of Acquis – Challenges and Difficulties Facing the Serbian Administration”, European Review of Public Law/Revue Européenne de Droit Public, Vol. 22(4) winter/hiver  Annual Review 2010, pp. 1179-1197;
  • Violeta Besirevi and Čavoški, A, “Administration without Frontiers? Serbian Migration Law and Policy from the European Perspectives”, European Review of Public Law/Revue Européenne de Droit Public, Vol. 21(1) spring/printemps Annual Review 2009, pp. 462-503;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Organisation of Public Administration in Serbia” European Review of Public Law/Revue Européenne de Droit Public,, 2008, Vol. 20(4), pp. 1589-1608.
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “A Post-austerity European Commission: No Role for Environmental Policy?”, Environmental Politics 2015 24(3), pp. 501-505;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Perceptions of the European Union in Serbia”, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung dossier ‘Europe – the Final Countdown or Resurrection Time?’ within the EU “Europe for Citizens” project, June 2013, available at  http://eu.boell.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/12/perceptions_of_the_eu_in_serbia.pdf;
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, “Revisiting the Convention on Nuclear Safety: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Accident”, Asian Journal of International Law 2013 3(2), pp. 365-391;

Aleksandra also published extensively in Serbian language.

Books (selected publications)

  • Aleksandra Čavoški and Mario Reljanović, Idea of Creating EU Criminal Law, Association of Prosecutors and Deputy Prosecutors of Serbia, Belgrade 2011, 138 pages; ISBN 978-86-87259-17-1
  • Aleksandra Čavoški, Foundations of EU Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Union University and Sluzbeni glasnik, Belgrade 2007, 162 pages; ISBN 978-86-7549-745-5

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