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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Regulating Heat Networks: An Appraisal of the Energy Act 2023	55
Licence to Pollute? Revisiting the Regulatory Compliance Defence in Civil Proceedings in Cases of Human Rights Violations	41
Significant international environmental law developments: 2024–25	24
The Place of Law in Technology Transitions: A Case Study from Chemical Risk Assessment	24
Planning Policy and the Law	23
Energy Geopolitics and Climate Law: Interdisciplinary Environmental Law Scholarship in a Geopolitical World	22
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	10
A World of Difference: Overcoming Normative Limits of the ECHR Framework through a Legally Binding Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment	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?	7
Erga omnes and erga omnes partes obligations in the International Court of Justice’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion	7
The Obligations of the States in Respect of Climate Change Before the International Court of Justice	6
Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks	6
Ten years a chair—reflections on the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee	6
On Cracks, Lights and Environments	6
Exploring a Right to Submit Environmental Information Under International Environmental Law	5
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	5
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2023	4
Interpreting the Law of the Sea in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: The Ambulatory Thesis and State Practice	4
We Need To Talk About Method: A Call for More and Better Empirical Environmental Law Scholarship	4
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

Narrative and Story-telling in Darwall & Anor v Dartmoor National Park Authority	4
Significant UK environmental law cases 2025–6	4
From ‘ILCs’ to ‘IPLCs’: A Victory for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Advocacy Under the Convention on Biological Diversity?	3
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2021–2022	3
‘State Greenwashing’: An Overlooked Phenomenon?	3
Regulating Greenwashing: Where Market Rules Meet Climate Action	3
Significant UK Environmental Law Cases 2024–25	3
The Centre Will Not Hold: The Foundations of Environmental Law	3
The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	3
Waste, Fertilising Product, or Something Else? EU Regulation of Biochar	3
Greenwashing in the oil and gas sector: the limitations of climate change litigation on advertising in Brazil	2
Regulation With Borders?—‘Nature’ and ‘Society’ in Marine Protection Areas	2
The Aarhus Convention and the Latent Right to a Healthy Environment	2
The ‘Living Instrument’ at the Service of Climate Action: The ECtHR Long-Standing Doctrine Confronted to the Climate Emergency	2
Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship: Marketisation, Globalisation, Polarisation, and Digitalisation	2
Assessing Science-Based Decision-Making in US Climate Change Lawsuits	2
Pioneering climate justice in Asia: South Korea’s Constitutional Court sets an intergenerational equity precedent for government accountability	2
Ecological legal fictions: land subdivisions, property, and conservation in Southern Chile	2
The Legal Protection of Animal Parasites in International Biodiversity Law	2
Legal Dilemmas of Climate Action	2
Conservation covenants: what is the role of reciprocity?	2
Mapping corporate climate litigation outside the USA	2