Pioneering research into the circular economy receives funding from the UKRI’s AHRC-DFG bilateral grants

Professor Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm and Dr Michael Picard have been awarded funding for their project 'Fashion's PLACE - Private (International) Law and Circular Economy' by UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council-Deutsche Forschungsgemienschaft bilateral grants. The collaborative research project explores private international law and the circular economy.

The study will be the first of its kind to provide an analysis of the legal landscape for the circularity transition. It will explore private and private international law components of the legal design for a circular economy in global value chains along the journey of textiles – from the places of production, via the marketplace of consumption, to the places of disposal.

Collaborating with colleagues in Germany, Professor Ruiz Abou-Nigm will be the principal investigator, with Dr Picard as co-investigator for Edinburgh, and Dr Antonia Sommerfeld and Professor Ralf Michaels from Max Planck Institute for Private International and Comparative Law, taking on the role of principal investigator and co-investigator, respectively.

The study builds on earlier award-winning research by Professor Ruiz Abou-Nigm and Dr Sommerfeld (Pioneering research on circular fashion wins prestigious Business Law Prize) 

Read more about the projects awarded funding

DFG - UK-German Research projects in the Arts and Humanities