OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transnational Environmental Law is 3. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Rights of Nature, Legal Personality, and Indigenous Philosophies	54
Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature	45
Constitutional Law, Ecosystems, and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects	44
Recognizing the Martuwarra's First Law Right to Life as a Living Ancestral Being	43
River Co-governance and Co-management in Aotearoa New Zealand: Enabling Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being	20
Steps Towards a Legal Ontological Turn: Proposals for Law's Place beyond the Human	14
China's State-Centric Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility Overseas: A Case Study in Africa	14
The Australian Energy Transition as a Federalism Challenge: (Un)cooperative Energy Federalism?	13
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: A Critical Examination	13
Mind the Compliance Gap: How Insights from International Human Rights Mechanisms Can Help to Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity	13
Making Infrastructure ‘Visible’ in Environmental Law: The Belt and Road Initiative and Climate Change Friction	10
The Concept of Essential Use: A Novel Approach to Regulating Chemicals in the European Union	9
The Duty of Care of Fossil-Fuel Producers for Climate Change Mitigation	9
Towards a Holistic Environmental Flow Regime in Chile: Providing for Ecosystem Health and Indigenous Rights	9
Of Ebbs and Flows: Understanding the Legal Consequences of Granting Personhood to Natural Entities in India	8
A Just Energy Transition and Functional Federalism: The Case of South Africa	8
Re-imagining the Making of Climate Law and Policy in Citizens’ Assemblies	8
Children and Youth in Strategic Climate Litigation: Advancing Rights through Legal Argument and Legal Mobilization	8
Strengthening the Paris Agreement by Holding Non-State Actors Accountable: Establishing Normative Links between Transnational Partnerships and Treaty Implementation	7
‘Soft Law in a Hard Shell’: India, International Rulemaking and the International Solar Alliance	7
Energy Transition in the European Union and its Member States: Interpreting Federal Competence Allocation in the Light of the Paris Agreement	7
Science and Law in Environmental Law and Policy: The Case of the European Commission	7
Renewable Energy Federalism in Germany and the United States	6
Justifying Representation of Future Generations and Nature: Contradictory or Mutually Supporting Values?	6
Can Nature Hold Rights? It's Not as Easy as You Think	6

Harnessing Local and Transnational Communities in the Global Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage	5
Softness in the Law of International Watercourses: The (E)merging Normativities of China's Lancang-Mekong Cooperation	5
Indigenous Water Rights in Comparative Law	5
From Bushfires to Misfires: Climate-related Financial Risk after McVeigh v. Retail Employees Superannuation Trust	5
Public Voices and Environmental Decisions: The Escazú Agreement in Comparative Perspective	5
Addressing Climate Change through International Human Rights Law: From (Extra)Territoriality to Common Concern of Humankind	5
The Normative Nature of the Ecosystem Approach: A Mediterranean Case Study	4
Engaging Asian States on Combating IUU Fishing: The Curious Case of the State of Nationality in EU Regulation and Practice	4
Of Markets and Subsidies: Counter-intuitive Trends for Clean Energy Policy in the European Union and the United States	4
Mitigation and Adaptation through Environmental Impact Assessment Litigation: Rethinking the Prospect of Climate Change Litigation in China	4
Climate Change Mitigation in the Aviation Sector: A Critical Overview of National and International Initiatives	4
The Rights of Nature as a Bridge between Land-Ownership Regimes: The Potential of Institutionalized Interplay in Post-Colonial Societies	3
Why Protect Ancient Woodland in the UK? Rethinking the Ecosystem Approach	3
Are Banks Responsible for Animal Welfare and Climate Disruption? A Critical Review of Australian Banks’ Due Diligence Policies for Agribusiness Lending	3
Experiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Law	3
Transition rather than Revolution: The Gradual Road towards Animal Legal Personhood through the Legislature	3
How Ecuador's Courts Are Giving Form and Force to Rights of Nature Norms	3
Federalism and Mitigating Climate Change: The Merits of Flexibility, Experimentalism, and Dissonance	3
Conceptualizing the Transnational Regulation of Plastics: Moving Towards a Preventative and Just Agenda for Plastics	3
An Apology Leading to Dystopia: Or, Why Fuelling Climate Change Is Tortious	3