OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of European Comparative & International 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature, By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, x + 128 pp.	60
Area‐based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?	31
Reimagining prosperity: Toward a new imaginary of law and political economy in the EU by MarijaBartl, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 254 pp	23
When corporate laws meet climate loss: The practical challenges of shareholder‐led climate litigation	19
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Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global Rules By LeslieJohns, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 560.	13
Towards minilateral climate governance? Analysing climate club design options through the lens of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities	10
Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle‐based regulatory theory and strategy	10
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Redesigning mineral regimes to strengthen the environmental rule of law: A case study on lithium in brines	9
Successful conservation and management of kelp forests requires more ambitious use of international law	9
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Farming and biochar in the EU and the road to sustainability: Drawing connections through the Common Agricultural Policy and the regulation of organic and carbon farming	8
Tempering great expectations: The legitimacy constraints and the conflict function of international courts in international climate litigation	7
Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	7
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Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	6
Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	6
Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam	6
A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia	6
Protecting forests or saving trees? The EU's regulatory approach to global deforestation	5
Power in Conservation: Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, by CarolCarpenterPublished by Routledge, 2020, 219 pp., £34.99, paperback.	5
The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law, By MingDuOxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 256 pp.	5
Navigating the hydrogen landscape: An analysis of hydrogen support mechanisms in the US and the EU	5
Accelerating the EU's climate transformation: The European Green Deal's Fit for 55 Package unpacked	5

Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law, By Natalie LDobson, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 267 pp.	5
Liminal phases and electronic waste: Interrogating temporality in international law	5
Data governance for the ecological transition: An infrastructure perspective	5
Climate‐related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia‐Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime	4
Non‐refoulement and climate change‐induced displacement: Regional and international cross‐fertilization?	4
Forest conservation as a common concern: EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products in the light of public international law	4
Biofuel restrictions and indirect land‐use change: What does the WTO say?	4
Reflexive EU environmental law: Exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single‐use Plastics Directive	4
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Domestic entities and access and benefit‐sharing: A legal critique of Divya Pharmacy v Union of India	4
Deposit return schemes of EU Member States and the EU's internal market	4
Bringing the right to water into the spotlight: A civil right before the European Court of Human Rights?	4
The direct application and potential indirect contribution of space law for solar radiation modification governance	4
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and Their Bodies By IyanOffor, Routledge. 2023. 320 pp.	4
Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v Bolivia): Is the International Court of Justice falling short?	3
The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses	3
Piecing together the jigsaw: Forests in the EU's Fit for 55 Package	3
The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non‐economic loss and damage	3
The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?	3
Integrating environmental sustainability into EU data law and governance: The case of health data	3
United Nations recognition of the universal right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: An eyewitness account	3
Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights‐based green transition	3
Case C‐24/19 (A and others): How to ensure effet utile of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive?	3
Using socio‐economic analysis and the safe‐and‐sustainable‐by‐design concept to balance costs and benefits in the circular economy	3
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Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	3
Indigenous youth and international conservation law: Five case studies	3
A legal study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework	3
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The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health	3
Water property rights in investor‐state contracts on extractive activities, affects water governance: An empirical assessment of 80 contracts in Africa and Asia	2
Energy and the environment: Exploring the nexus under international economic law By SherzodShadikhodjaev, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. pp. 387. $135.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781316517444	2
A democratic nuclear energy transition? Public participation in nuclear activities	2
Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence By Caroline E.Foster, Oxford University Press. 2021. xxx + 375 pp.	2
Atmospheric CO₂ as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels	2
A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters	2
Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives	2
Navigating the legal uncertainty around the governance of an integrated energy system using the values of the energy transition and energy justice	2
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A framework for the assessment of alternative uses in international water law	2
Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims	2
Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation	2
Taking the current when it serves: Prospects and challenges for an ITLOS advisory opinion on oceans and climate change	2
The European Court of Human Right's landmark judgment in the case of Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy	2
Scrutinizing net zero: The legal problems of counting greenhouse gas emissions, removals and offsets together	2