OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Law is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Regulating Heat Networks: An Appraisal of the Energy Act 2023	25
Corrigendum to: The Intergenerational Effect of Fundamental Rights: A Contribution of the German Federal Constitutional Court to Climate Protection	23
Planning Policy and the Law	22
The Place of Law in Technology Transitions: A Case Study from Chemical Risk Assessment	18
Allocation of Institutional Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Judicial Application of Constitutional Environmental Provisions in the European Climate Cases Arctic Oil, Neubauer	13
Energy Geopolitics and Climate Law: Interdisciplinary Environmental Law Scholarship in a Geopolitical World	11
The Role of Quota Systems in Realising Planetary Boundaries	10
The Obligations of the States in Respect of Climate Change Before the International Court of Justice	9
Systemic Climate Change Litigation, Standing Rules and the Aarhus Convention: A Purposive Approach	9
Environmental Policy in Good and Bad Times: The Countercyclical Effects of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade	8
Policies, Places and Practices: Why Environmental Law Scholars Should Care About the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023	8
Held v State of Montana: A Constitutional Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?	6
NGOs as Lobbyists: A Casualty of Environmental Law’s Tunnel Vision?	6
Climate Change, Fundamental Rights, and Statutory Interpretation	6
Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks	6
A World of Difference: Overcoming Normative Limits of the ECHR Framework through a Legally Binding Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment	6
Exploring a Right to Submit Environmental Information Under International Environmental Law	5
On Cracks, Lights and Environments	5
The Nature, Content and Realisation of the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment	4
An Example of Sustainable Development (In)Action: The Case of Waste Pickers at a Buy-Back Centre in Johannesburg	4
A Review in Three Haikus	4
Interpreting the Law of the Sea in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: The Ambulatory Thesis and State Practice	4
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2023	4
Narrative and Story-telling in Darwall & Anor v Dartmoor National Park Authority	4
We Need To Talk About Method: A Call for More and Better Empirical Environmental Law Scholarship	4

The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	3
Climate Disruption in Canadian Constitutional Law: References Re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act	3
From ‘ILCs’ to ‘IPLCs’: A Victory for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Advocacy Under the Convention on Biological Diversity?	3
Revisiting Missed Opportunities: A Self-Reflection on (Not Always) Writing Meaningfully	3
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2021–2022	3
From Extra-Territorial Leverage and Transnational Environmental Protection to Distortions of Competition: The Level Playing Field in the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement	3
The Centre Will Not Hold: The Foundations of Environmental Law	3
Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship: Marketisation, Globalisation, Polarisation, and Digitalisation	2
Legal Dilemmas of Climate Action	2
The Impact of the European Landscape Convention on Landscape Planning in Spain, Italy and England	2
The Aarhus Convention and the Latent Right to a Healthy Environment	2
Regulating Trade in Forest-Risk Commodities: Two Cheers for the European Union	2
Waste, Fertilising Product, or Something Else? EU Regulation of Biochar	2
Assessing Science-Based Decision-Making in US Climate Change Lawsuits	2
Marking out the Interpretive Possibilities of the Aarhus Convention	2
The ‘Living Instrument’ at the Service of Climate Action: The ECtHR Long-Standing Doctrine Confronted to the Climate Emergency	2
A Theoretical Framework for Transformative Corporate Intergenerational Equity	2
The Legal Protection of Animal Parasites in International Biodiversity Law	2
Regulation With Borders?—‘Nature’ and ‘Society’ in Marine Protection Areas	2
A Duty to Care: The Case of Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560	2
Significant International Environmental Law Developments: 2020–2021	2
Restoring the Regulated: The EU’s Nature Restoration Law	2