OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Judicialisation for environmental public interest protection in China: the faces of court in different forms of environmental litigation	14
The Right to a Healthy Environment in and Beyond the Anthropocene: A European Perspective	13
A new global energy order? The world contemplates the meaning of the EU's embargo on Russian oil imports	10
Climate change regulations in subnational governments of the Southeast Asian countries: case studies from Indonesia and the Philippines	8
‘The’ key 2024 election involving climate change and the energy transition: Biden vs Trump 2.0 and the matter of global trust in the US	8
Australian resources law and public policy, revisited	7
Climate change, energy transition, and the Global South: learnings from the international framework on the ozone layer	7
Implementing energy justice through corporate social responsibility of multinational corporations in energy and extractive industries: old body in new robes	6
Legal remedies for energy injustice in the ECOWAS sub-region: the role of the ECOWAS Court	6
Artificial intelligence and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as anti-corruption tools for Canadian extractive companies	5
The energy transition and energy security nexus: an outlook for the United Kingdom	5
Regulating the future hydrogen trade in the EU: WTO law considerations	5
Regulating radical innovations in the EU electricity markets: time for a robust sandbox	5
In Pursuit of Carbon Neutrality: Energy Law and Regulation in China	4
In plain sight – from Juukan caves destruction to just development	4
Maritime boundaries in the energy transition: carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) storage across maritime jurisdictions	4
Prospects and challenges of Islamic finance instruments for low-carbon energy transitions: a legal analysis from an energy justice perspective	4
The Law of Nuclear Energy, 3rd edition	4
Looking beyond the ‘watercourse’: reconceptualising key norms of the law of international watercourses as obligations erga omnes	3
Appropriate dispute resolution of investor–state disputes in natural resources, energy and environmental cases	3
Just energy business needed! How to achieve a just energy transition by engaging energy companies in reaching climate neutrality: (re)conceptualising energy law for energy corporations	3
Implementing energy justice through a new social contract	3
Held v Montana : the beginning of a climate change lawsuit trend in US state level courts or a one-shot wonder?	3
Finding a needle in a haystack? Identifying degrowth-compatible provisions in EU energy law for a just transition to net-zero by 2050	3
Energy justice discourse: Global South perspectives	3

Challenges for Norway in implementing intergenerational equity in its offshore petroleum	3
Legal foundations for public participation on international watercourses: the case of the Ili River	2
Collaborative versus adversarial approaches to addressing transboundary water disputes – what do implementation committees have to offer?	2
Solidarity and community interests in international environmental and natural resources law	2
The EU Data Act and electricity consumer participation in demand response and flexibility services	2
The Regulation of Decommissioning, Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry: From Obligation to Opportunities	2
The law enabling voluntary energy transition: lessons learned from Korea’s legal framework	2
Research Handbook on Oil and Gas Law	2
Regulation and remediation of the impacts of mine wastes on land and water in South Africa	1
Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States	1
Resilience of critical transition minerals supply chain in the context of strategic rivalry: implications for the national policy and regulatory frameworks	1
Pathways of scholarship for energy justice and the social contract	1
The mining and energy industry in Colombia: a 30-year overview	1
Energy law for the next generation, towards 2030 to 2050	1
Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System: Biofuel, Biowaste and Biogas	1
Maximising Economic Recovery – A New Approach to Regulating the UK’s Offshore Oil and Gas Industry	1
Stakeholder and regulatory perspectives on the creation of district-level structures for positive energy districts: the case of Hiedanranta	1
China’s ownership policies in the coal sector: effectiveness of capacity regulation and prospect for climate change mitigation	1
Reforming the Energy Charter Treaty for sustainability?	1
US environmental law and policy trends in 2021 and what they might mean for Australia	1
Defining microgrids: from technology to law	1
Stranded between political imperative and regulatory uncertainty: China’s move towards natural gas pricing reform	1
Critical reflections on the Juukan Gorge parliamentary inquiry and prospects for industry change	1
Hydrogen production in Australia from renewable energy: no doubt green and clean, but is it mean?	1
States’ extraterritorial duty towards the right to water: balancing sovereignty and community at the transboundary water basin level	1
Investor–state dispute settlement in natural resources, energy and environmental cases	1
The hydrogen hustle: navigating Australia’s politicised energy transition	1
Promise, obstacles and hope for new nuclear’s role in decarbonisation	0
Groundwater management in India's Punjab and Haryana: a case of too little and too late?	0
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India	0
Partnering for energy justice: Indigenous–corporate relationships in renewable energy industries in Australia	0
EU carbon emission allowances as environmental and financial instruments – is it possible to kill two birds with one stone?	0
The multi-functionality of ecovoltaics: comparative analysis of large-scale solar regulatory frameworks in New South Wales and England	0
The Escazú Agreement: public access to environmental information and the goal of a sustainable future	0
Net Zero and Natural Resources Law: Sovereignty, Security and Solidarity in the Clean Energy Transition (Oxford University Press, 2024)	0
Analysing just energy transition practices in India, Nepal and Bhutan using a trilogy framework of decarbonisation, decentralisation democratisation	0
The European Union facing the abyss: legislative review in the face of the energy crisis, 2022	0
Keeping the lights on: oil and gas development in a low-carbon world	0
Climate, ESG, and the board of directors: ‘You cannot direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails’	0
Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality	0
Legal issues in the implementation of China's emissions trading scheme	0
The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: how to make it operational and effective	0
Brexit and Energy Law: Implications and Opportunities	0
Exercise of ministerial powers under Nigeria’s petroleum industry act	0
Improving environmental and social practices in the mining sector is essential in the transition to renewable energy	0
Dividing the sea into small bidding zones? The legal challenges of connecting offshore wind farms to multiple countries	0
Nuclear safety: a global challenge in the context of the war in Ukraine	0
Geopolitical realities of the energy transition supply chain: energy security risks and opportunities	0
Indigenous co-ownership of mining projects: a preliminary framework for the critical examination of equity participation	0
‘Community of communities’ as substantive and procedural fairness in international water law	0

Balancing majoritarianism and the right to consultation: Association of Mineworkers and Constitutional Union and Others v Royal Bafokeng Platinum Limited and Others	0
The compromised international legal regime for deep seabed mining and a possible solution from China’s legislative perspective	0
The challenges of sharing data at the intersection of EU data protection and electricity market legislation: lessons from the Netherlands	0
An Environmental Court in Action: Function, Doctrine and Process	0
Europe’s security of gas supply legislation – a short legal history and latest developments	0
Importing US-produced hydrogen and its derivatives into the EU – examples of unnecessary complications, barriers and distinctions	0
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law	0
Collaborative governance and conflict management in transboundary protected areas for watercourses: insights from marine protected areas beyond national jurisdiction	0
A core concept in natural resources law: the nexus between owner and operator	0
Local communities and transparency in Indonesian mining legislation	0
Energy and natural resources law in New Zealand: an eventful forty years	0
Energy justice – the triumvirate of tenets revisited and revised	0
Principles of International Energy Transition Law: Law as an Instrument of Development in the 21st Century	0
In memoriam: Edward Taylor Hunt Talmage III	0
‘The whole is greater than the sum of the parts': assessing the suitability of energy communities for the creation of positive energy districts	0
Human rights due diligence as a risk management instrument for the mining industry in an energy transition scenario: assessing the Chilean experience	0
Funding decommissioning in emerging petroleum producing countries: Ghana’s experience with decommissioning costs and guarantees	0
Climate change in international arbitration, the next big thing?	0
Handbook on Energy Justice	0
The evolution of principles of energy law (a review of the content of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 1982–2022)	0
Procedural (in)justice in regulating shale gas as transitional fuel in India	0
Petroleum Resource Management in Africa: Lessons From Ten Years of Oil and Gas Production in Ghana	0
A reflective analysis of China's energy policy from the perspective of systemic energy justice principles	0
Playing with fire: part II	0
The Kaleidoscope of International Law	0
Courts must provide climate change leadership in the absence of law-making progress	0
Hydrogen Projects: Legal and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities	0
‘The future of electricity’: a panel of experts considers what lies ahead in Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Italy and Japan	0
Legal issues of developing local electricity markets: energy communities as an example	0
Selected legal, financial and social issues related to energy cooperatives and other cooperative entities in the context of energy transition in Poland, with a particular focus on rural areas	0
Playing with fire: military attacks against a civilian nuclear power station	0
Another look at achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: using extraction projects as a source for financing impact projects?	0
A rapidly moving beast: Australian regulatory reforms to tackle ‘greenwashing’ and the lessons we are learning	0
Reflection on and construction of the legal regimes of nuclear damage compensation in China: a policy analysis perspective	0
Future-proofing for green hydrogen in the Global South: a procedural justice perspective	0
Historic climate change legislation becomes law: the United States becomes serious (at least for now) on combatting climate change	0
The 40th anniversary of the Journal: observing and analysing the evolution of energy and natural resources law	0
The past, present and future of energy law in Mexico: energy law from 1992 to 2022	0
Seven pillars of energy cooperation: an energy justice-driven framework for energy communities and energy cooperatives	0
Showcase panel – risk management for the swift implementation of energy transition projects	0
Digitalisation: an enabler for the clean energy transition	0
Legal issues associated with renewable fuels	0
Youth Climate Courts: How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet	0
Collaborative renewable development in Chile: a new path forward for the Mapuche	0
The socio-economic rights of the Aymara and Quechua peoples of Bolivia, the lithium industry, and the geopolitics of natural resources	0
Brexit and environmental law in England: where are we now?	0
Reflections on the corporate social responsibility landscape for Canadian mining transnational corporations in the aftermath of Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya	0
Islamic sustainable finance, law and innovation: opportunities and challenges	0
Collectively owned distributed energy resources and private property law: embedded networks in high-density and master-planned housing	0
The ecological sustainability of the energy transition in EU law: pro et contra hydropower	0
Exploring regulatory strategies for accelerating the development of sustainable hydrogen markets in the European Union	0
Canada’s carbon energy overhang	0
Beyond international water law – unconventional approaches to conventional foundations in times of global crises	0
A de-risking toolkit for legal practitioners: the core critical and strategic minerals compendium	0
Increased financial regulation in the European Union for energy firms extensively active in energy derivatives markets?	0
Normative model for regulating the operation of heavy industry in energy cooperatives for accelerating decarbonisation processes in decentralised energy systems	0
Environmental information access and management in the Lithium Triangle: is it transparent information?	0
Selling sunshine: Emerging challenges in the certification of hydrogen	0
(Re)examining the intersection between energy justice and energy transition in Africa	0
Can litigation assist in implementing the outcome of the global stocktake?	0