This contribution investigates the form and content of a new and updated European Union (EU) legal framework intended to regulate third-country import pipelines for gas, including the ‘upstream' component of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The article will first set the scene and examine the...

The following is a revised version of the second Woodhouse Memorial Lecture given at both the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland in September 2018. It traces the history and policy iterations of New Zealand's accident compensation scheme that flowed from the 1967...

This Article proposes that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) consider promulgating an Open Access Distribution Tariff (OADT) to open the nation's electric grid to new products and services at the consumer (distribution) level. Design of the OADT would be comparable to the Open...

Globally-known green building certification schemes have become dominant in the Turkish market. However, Turkey desires its own national scheme not only to deliver at home but also if possible to sell this label abroad. Three national schemes aim to be “Turkey's label” while competing...

This paper studies access to justice in China. It provides an in-depth case study of three decades of failed local activism to deal with environmental grievances. The paper finds that access to justice need not be a matter of choosing between justice from above or from below. Rather the patterns...

This Article draws lessons about the theory of law and economics from the recent financial crisis. It argues that the financial crisis teaches us that allocative efficiency, the main goal of law and microeconomics, proves an unattainable and relatively unimportant goal for laws addressing...

Energy efficiency and conservation are the most practical and cost effective approaches to providing energy services and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and deliver a wide range of social, economic, security, and environmental benefits. Although they represent the most sustainable approach to...

German Abstract: In dem Artikel geht es – nach einer Einleitung über die Möglichkeiten für deutsche Unternehmer auf dem französischen Biogasmarkt tätig zu werden – darum, genauer darzulegen, welche Genehmigungen für den Bau und den Betrieb von Biogasanlagen in Frankreich beantragt...

German Abstract: Das viel beachtete „Feinstaub-Urteil“ des EuGH bestätigte dem europäischen Bürger im Juli 2008 ein „Recht auf saubere Luft“ und dessen Einklagbarkeit vor nationalen Gerichten. Nach dem Urteil muss der Staat zum Schutz des in seiner Gesundheit beeinträchtigten...

This amicus brief was filed in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Electric Power Supply Association energy law demand response case (and companion case brought by EnerNOC and others), which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear in fall 2015. It was co-authored by Joel Eisen (University of...