OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of European Comparative & International 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature, By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, x + 128 pp.	29
Reimagining prosperity: Toward a new imaginary of law and political economy in the EU by MarijaBartl, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 254 pp	26
When corporate laws meet climate loss: The practical challenges of shareholder‐led climate litigation	24
Area‐based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?	21
Favourable conservation status: EU Court clarifies crucial yardstick for wildlife preservation and restoration in wave of wolf cases	17
Environmental integrity beyond carbon: Environmental co‐benefits and differentiated obligations in carbon market governance	16
The international climate change regime and general principles of law	15
Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global Rules By LeslieJohns, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 560.	15
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Tempering great expectations: The legitimacy constraints and the conflict function of international courts in international climate litigation	13
Redesigning mineral regimes to strengthen the environmental rule of law: A case study on lithium in brines	12
Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle‐based regulatory theory and strategy	12
The sea level rise part of the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion : Rapid‐reaction assessment and possible ways forward	11
Nature and the law: In defence of a pluriversal, more‐than‐human approach	11
Towards minilateral climate governance? Analysing climate club design options through the lens of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities	11
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	10
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Do Just Energy Transition Partnerships collide or converge with substantive investment law standards? Case studies from Indonesia and Vietnam	10
Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam	10
Successful conservation and management of kelp forests requires more ambitious use of international law	10
Liminal phases and electronic waste: Interrogating temporality in international law	10
Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	9
Differentiation through due diligence: Common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the ICJ's 2025 climate advisory opinion	9
A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia	9

Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	9
The International Court of Justice on the mitigation obligations in the Paris Agreement	8
Accelerating the EU's climate transformation: The European Green Deal's Fit for 55 Package unpacked	8
Data governance for the ecological transition: An infrastructure perspective	8
Climate litigation and vulnerabilities: Global South perspectives by Maria AntoniaTigre, Melanie JeanMurcott, Susan AnnSamuel (Eds.), Abingdon: Routledge. 2025. pp. 348. £165.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978	8
Navigating the hydrogen landscape: An analysis of hydrogen support mechanisms in the US and the EU	8
Streamlining strategies to expedite environmental permitting in EU law	8
Strategic designation, accelerated permitting and accountability under the Critical Raw Materials Act	8
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The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law, By MingDuOxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 256 pp.	8
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law, By Natalie LDobson, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 267 pp.	7
Deposit return schemes of EU Member States and the EU's internal market	7
Reflexive EU environmental law: Exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single‐use Plastics Directive	7
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Rights of Nature in the EU: A thought experiment to improve access to justice	6
Biofuel restrictions and indirect land‐use change: What does the WTO say?	6
Pollution is colonialism by MaxLiboiron, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. pp. 216. $25.95 (paperback). $99.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐1413‐3 (paperback); 978‐1‐4780‐1322‐8 (hardco	5
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and Their Bodies By IyanOffor, Routledge. 2023. 320 pp.	5
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The direct application and potential indirect contribution of space law for solar radiation modification governance	5
Climate‐related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia‐Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime	5
Forest conservation as a common concern: EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products in the light of public international law	5
Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v Bolivia): Is the International Court of Justice falling short?	5
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Life cycle thinking in plastics design	5
Correction to “Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway”	5
Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	4
Common and civil law approaches to tort‐based corporate climate litigation: A comparative case law review	4
Strengthening international climate law through regional trade agreements: Towards concretisation, adjudication and enforcement?	4
Integrating environmental sustainability into EU data law and governance: The case of health data	4
Symposium on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change	4
The edifice on sands: Reforming withdrawal clauses towards more resilient and ambitious climate governance	4
Integrating food systems into the international climate law and policy framework	4
Piecing together the jigsaw: Forests in the EU's Fit for 55 Package	4
Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights‐based green transition	3
The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non‐economic loss and damage	3
Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation	3
Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives	3
Using socio‐economic analysis and the safe‐and‐sustainable‐by‐design concept to balance costs and benefits in the circular economy	3
The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses	3
A legal study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework	3
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	3
Taking the current when it serves: Prospects and challenges for an ITLOS advisory opinion on oceans and climate change	3
The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?	3
The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health	3
Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims	3
A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters	3
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