OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Law is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Regulating Heat Networks: An Appraisal of the Energy Act 2023	46
Planning Policy and the Law	36
The Place of Law in Technology Transitions: A Case Study from Chemical Risk Assessment	24
Licence to Pollute? Revisiting the Regulatory Compliance Defence in Civil Proceedings in Cases of Human Rights Violations	21
Significant international environmental law developments: 2024–25	21
Energy Geopolitics and Climate Law: Interdisciplinary Environmental Law Scholarship in a Geopolitical World	20
Allocation of Institutional Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Judicial Application of Constitutional Environmental Provisions in the European Climate Cases Arctic Oil, Neubauer	15
The devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales: an environmental law perspective	12
The Role of Quota Systems in Realising Planetary Boundaries	11
Climate Change, Fundamental Rights, and Statutory Interpretation	9
Held v State of Montana: A Constitutional Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?	8
The Obligations of the States in Respect of Climate Change Before the International Court of Justice	8
Policies, Places and Practices: Why Environmental Law Scholars Should Care About the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023	7
A World of Difference: Overcoming Normative Limits of the ECHR Framework through a Legally Binding Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment	7
Erga omnes and erga omnes partes obligations in the International Court of Justice’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion	7
Ten years a chair—reflections on the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee	6
In between the missed opportunities and future possibilities: human rights in the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change and the prospects for climate litigation	6
Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks	6
On Cracks, Lights and Environments	6
We Need To Talk About Method: A Call for More and Better Empirical Environmental Law Scholarship	5
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2023	5
An Example of Sustainable Development (In)Action: The Case of Waste Pickers at a Buy-Back Centre in Johannesburg	5
Exploring a Right to Submit Environmental Information Under International Environmental Law	5
Narrative and Story-telling in Darwall & Anor v Dartmoor National Park Authority	4
From ‘ILCs’ to ‘IPLCs’: A Victory for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Advocacy Under the Convention on Biological Diversity?	4

Interpreting the Law of the Sea in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: The Ambulatory Thesis and State Practice	4
The Nature, Content and Realisation of the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment	4
Waste, Fertilising Product, or Something Else? EU Regulation of Biochar	3
‘State Greenwashing’: An Overlooked Phenomenon?	3
The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	3
Greenwashing in the oil and gas sector: the limitations of climate change litigation on advertising in Brazil	3
The Legal Protection of Animal Parasites in International Biodiversity Law	3
Regulating Greenwashing: Where Market Rules Meet Climate Action	3
Significant UK Environmental Law Cases 2024–25	3
Regulation With Borders?—‘Nature’ and ‘Society’ in Marine Protection Areas	3
The Centre Will Not Hold: The Foundations of Environmental Law	3
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2021–2022	3
Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship: Marketisation, Globalisation, Polarisation, and Digitalisation	2
Ecological legal fictions: land subdivisions, property, and conservation in Southern Chile	2
Restoring the Regulated: The EU’s Nature Restoration Law	2
Legal Dilemmas of Climate Action	2
Pioneering climate justice in Asia: South Korea’s Constitutional Court sets an intergenerational equity precedent for government accountability	2
The ‘Living Instrument’ at the Service of Climate Action: The ECtHR Long-Standing Doctrine Confronted to the Climate Emergency	2
Conservation covenants: what is the role of reciprocity?	2
Assessing Science-Based Decision-Making in US Climate Change Lawsuits	2
Marking out the Interpretive Possibilities of the Aarhus Convention	2
The Impact of the European Landscape Convention on Landscape Planning in Spain, Italy and England	2
The Living Wonders case: A Backwards Step in Australian Climate Litigation on Coal Mines	1
Just Transition as an Evolving Concept in International Climate Law	1
Private Law, Statutory Powers and Environmental Disputes: Manchester Ship Canal Company v United Utilities (No 2)	1
A Brave New World: The Aarhus Convention in Tempestuous Times	1
Green defaults in sustainable finance: compliance challenges at the intersection of private and public law	1
Advocating for the Environment, Charity Law and Greenpeace: A New Zealand Perspective	1
The responsibility of states for environmental damage caused by multinational corporations: the case of TRAFIGURA’s Toxic Waste	1
Review Essay: Australia before ‘environmental law’	1
Untangling the Gordian knot: differentiation in the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change	1
The Aarhus Convention and the Latent Right to a Healthy Environment	1
The Shrimp, the Judge and the Amendment: Courts’ Contribution to Aquaculture Regulation in India	1
U.S. Agency Experts in Shackles: The Quest for Information	1
Environmental Enforceable Undertakings: An Innovative Tool to Repair and Prevent Environmental Harm	1
On Human(made) Nature: A Socio-Legal Conceptual Analysis of Nature Restoration in the North Sea	1
Fossil fuel abolition in international law and arbitration	1
We Gifted the Ocean a Sea of Petroleum, Excrements, Robots and Plastics	1
Case C-330/22 Against Overfishing in the EU: The Future of Fish Resources in the Hands of Luxembourg?	1
The ICJ’s application of customary international law to climate change mitigation	1
Innovation, precaution, and sustainable development in EU environmental law–a false trichotomy?	1
The EU Environmental Crime Directive 2024: A Revolution in EU Environmental Criminal Law?	1
Recognizing the natural heritage of landscape in the law of England and Wales	1
Environment Protection Authority v Forestry Corporation of NSW : amici curiae and restorative environmental justice	1
Prioritization of environmental costs in Chinese insolvency law: guiding case no. 214 of China's Supreme People's Court	1
Circular or Vicious Loops? Gauging the Persistence of EU Waste Law Against the Circular Economy Transition	1
The Nature of Climate Law	1
The Legitimacy of Specialist Environmental Courts: Integrity as Capacity	1
A Theoretical Framework for Transformative Corporate Intergenerational Equity	1