Dr Louis Dawson

Birmingham Law School
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 46866
Email: l.j.p.dawson@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Dawson’s research interests centre around environmental law and in particular, Louis is interested in waste and resources, ecology and chemical regulation. Louis’ PhD, obtained from the University of Birmingham and funded by an EPSRC scholarship as part of the Faraday Institutions work on lithium-ion battery recycling, examined the role of extended producer responsibility in facilitating a circular economy. During his doctoral studies, Louis was able to gain valuable insights into policy-making through secondments to the House of Commons and the Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament).

Qualifications

PhD Law – University of Birmingham
LLM/LPC Legal Practice and Advanced Drafting – Swansea University
LLB Law – Swansea University
PgCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education – University of South Wales

Biography

Louis arrived at the University of Birmingham from the University of South Wales where he held the post of Lecturer of Law and completed his Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Louis acted as Course Leader for USW’s Master of Law courses (LLM Laws and LLM Laws, International Commercial Law). During his doctoral studies, Louis gained secondments to the House of Commons and the Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament).

Teaching

LM Environmental Protection and Pollution Control (40050)
LM Environmental and energy regulation (38926)

Postgraduate supervision

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

Research

Environmental law
Waste and resources
Ecology
Chemical regulation

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Dawson, L, Ahuja, J & Lee, R 2021, 'Steering extended producer responsibility for electric vehicle batteries', Environmental Law Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 128-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614529211006069

Ahuja, J, Dawson, L & Lee, R 2020, 'A circular economy for electric vehicle batteries: driving the change', Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law. https://doi.org/10.1108/jppel-02-2020-0011

Dawson, L 2019, '‘Our Waste, our Resources; A Strategy for England’– Switching to a circular economy through the use of extended producer responsibility', Environmental Law Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461452919851943

Comment/debate

de Paula Souza, J, Blum, J, Maran, U, Sild, S, Dawson, L, Čavoški, A, Holden, L, Lee, R, Karnel, V, Meusburger, L, Fraize-Frontier, S, Walsh, A, Rivière, G, Raitano, G, Roncaglioni, A, Di Consiglio, E, Tcheremenskaia, O, Bossa, C, Wendt-Rasch, L, Puzyn, T & Fritsche, E 2026, 'Advancing the implementation of artificial intelligence in regulatory frameworks for chemical safety assessment by defining robust readiness criteria', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 8, 1738770. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1738770

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