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

Article	Citations
Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature, By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, x + 128 pp.	33
Reimagining prosperity: Toward a new imaginary of law and political economy in the EU by MarijaBartl, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 254 pp	20
When corporate laws meet climate loss: The practical challenges of shareholder‐led climate litigation	20
Area‐based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?	19
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	10
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Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	9
Towards minilateral climate governance? Analysing climate club design options through the lens of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities	9
Successful conservation and management of kelp forests requires more ambitious use of international law	8
The sea level rise part of the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion : Rapid‐reaction assessment and possible ways forward	8
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
Nature and the law: In defence of a pluriversal, more‐than‐human approach	8
Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle‐based regulatory theory and strategy	8
Redesigning mineral regimes to strengthen the environmental rule of law: A case study on lithium in brines	8
Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	7
Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	7
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Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam	7
Liminal phases and electronic waste: Interrogating temporality in international law	6
Navigating the hydrogen landscape: An analysis of hydrogen support mechanisms in the US and the EU	6
Accelerating the EU's climate transformation: The European Green Deal's Fit for 55 Package unpacked	6
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The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law, By MingDuOxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 256 pp.	6
A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia	6
Data governance for the ecological transition: An infrastructure perspective	6
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law, By Natalie LDobson, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 267 pp.	6
Integrating environmental sustainability into EU data law and governance: The case of health data	5
Bringing the right to water into the spotlight: A civil right before the European Court of Human Rights?	5
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The direct application and potential indirect contribution of space law for solar radiation modification governance	5
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Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and Their Bodies By IyanOffor, Routledge. 2023. 320 pp.	5
Reflexive EU environmental law: Exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single‐use Plastics Directive	5
Non‐refoulement and climate change‐induced displacement: Regional and international cross‐fertilization?	5
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Domestic entities and access and benefit‐sharing: A legal critique of Divya Pharmacy v Union of India	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
Deposit return schemes of EU Member States and the EU's internal market	5
Climate‐related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia‐Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime	5
Biofuel restrictions and indirect land‐use change: What does the WTO say?	5
Forest conservation as a common concern: EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products in the light of public international law	5
United Nations recognition of the universal right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: An eyewitness account	4
The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses	4
Piecing together the jigsaw: Forests in the EU's Fit for 55 Package	4
Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	4
Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights‐based green transition	4
Correction to “Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway”	4
The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health	4
The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?	3
Strengthening international climate law through regional trade agreements: Towards concretisation, adjudication and enforcement?	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
The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non‐economic loss and damage	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
Water property rights in investor‐state contracts on extractive activities, affects water governance: An empirical assessment of 80 contracts in Africa and Asia	3
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Using socio‐economic analysis and the safe‐and‐sustainable‐by‐design concept to balance costs and benefits in the circular economy	3
Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives	3
Taking the current when it serves: Prospects and challenges for an ITLOS advisory opinion on oceans and climate change	3
Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation	3