Overview
The law of energy and natural resources has always had a strong focus on property as one of its components, but there are relatively few comparative, book-length, treatments of both property law and energy and natural resources law. The aim of this edited collection is to explore the multiple dimensions of the contemporary relationship between property and energy and natural resources law. Its genesis was the growing resurgence of global interest in questions of property in energy and resources and how it manifests itself across legal regimes around the world. With an international and comparative character, the collection seeks to capture differences in the meaning of property, and the different views about the role it should play in a diverse range of contexts: civil law and common law; the law of indigenous communities; public law and private law; and national and international law. Key issues discussed include private rights and common property situations, privatization and regulation, competition for land use and resources, the role of property rights in environmental protection, and the balance between national sovereignty and the security of foreign investment. The collection thus has relevance for a wide readership interested in the legal dimensions of property as an increasingly important aspect of the law for energy and resources across diverse countries, and at the international level. The contributors are established experts in the energy and natural resources law field, and the collection builds upon a body of previous collaborative work in this area.
Full Product Details
Author: Aileen McHarg (Senior Lecturer in Public Law, University of Glasgow) ,
Barry Barton (Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand) ,
Adrian Bradbrook (Bonython Professor of Law, Law School, University of Adelaide) ,
Lee Godden (Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.880kg
ISBN: 9780199579853
ISBN 10: 0199579857
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 25 February 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
I end this review with an apology to the 26 contributors to this collection whose names I have omitted and whose learned insights I have failed, in the interests of brevity, to acknowledge. I can only say that this collection is a treasure trove into which every lawyer and student of law should delve if they aspire to become an energy and natural resources lawyer. Robert Pritchard, International Energy Law Review There is coverage of a broad and complex range of legal issues in a comprehensive and logical manner...the legal analysis provided in this collection is both thorough and informative. It no doubt will feature prominently on law course reading lists in both the natural resource and property areas...and should be promoted beyond research circles to the wider communities involved in natural resource and property development. Linda Siegele, University College London
I can only say that this collection is a treasure trove into which every lawyer and student of law should delve if they aspire to become an energy and natural resources lawyer. - Robert Pritchard, International Energy Law Review
There is coverage of a broad and complex range of legal issues in a comprehensive and logical manner...the legal analysis provided in this collection is both thorough and informative. It no doubt will feature prominently on law course reading lists in both the natural resource and property areas...and should be promoted beyond research circles to the wider communities involved in natural resource and property development. * Linda Siegele, University College London * I end this review with an apology to the 26 contributors to this collection whose names I have omitted and whose learned insights I have failed, in the interests of brevity, to acknowledge. I can only say that this collection is a treasure trove into which every lawyer and student of law should delve if they aspire to become an energy and natural resources lawyer. * Robert Pritchard, International Energy Law Review *
Author Information
Aileen McHarg is a senior lecturer in public law at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has wide-ranging research interests in the area of constitutional and administrative law, with a particular specialism in regulatory theory and practice, especially relating to energy utilities. She has written extensively on this topic and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Utilities Law Review and of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law. Current research projects include analysis of the role of legally-binding targets in promoting renewable energy and of the relationship between devolution and the regulatory state. Barry Barton is a Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He specializes in energy and natural resources law, with particular reference to mining law, mining investment disputes, electricity market reform, energy efficiency, theories of regulation, and property rights in natural resources. He is Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association, Member of the Journal Board of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, and Editor of the Australian Energy and Resources Law Journal. Research programmes under way in which he takes part are Intercoast (coastal zone management involving Waikato and Bremen Universities) and Energy Cultures (with the University of Otago). Adrian Bradbrook is the Bonython Chair of Law at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the former Dean of the Faculty of Law (1991-95). He specializes in sustainable energy law, environmental law and property law. He has held the position of Chair of the Working Group on Energy Law and Climate Change for the IUCN (World Conservation Union) and has worked on a number of UN projects relating to energy law. He is a Member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, the Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy and the Australian Property Law Journal. He is the recipient of several major Australian Research Council Discovery and other grants relating to sustainable energy law. Professor Lee Godden is Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law at the Melbourne Law School. Her research interests span resources law, environmental law and property law, with a focus on water law and climate change. She has written extensively on the use of market mechanisms, such as property rights in 'cap and trade' instruments. She has a current project investigating climate change impacts on water resources, as well as long-standing research interests in agreement-making between indigenous peoples and mining interests. She has conducted comparative research in Australia, Canada, South Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific.
