Research Handbook on EU Energy Law and Policy

Edited by Rafael Leal-Arcas, Professor of Law and Public Policy, KAPSARC School of Public Policy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

Contents:

1. Introduction
Rafael Leal-Arcas and Jan Wouters

Part I Institutional aspects
2. Competences in EU energy policy
Kim Talus and Pami Aalto

3. External competences in energy and climate change
Ries Kamphof, Thijs Bonenkamp, Joren Selleslaghs and Madeleine O. Hosli

4. EU energy and competition: analysis of current trends and a first assessment of the new package
Leigh Hancher and Francesco Maria Salerno

5. The European Energy Union
Thomas Pellerin-Carlin

Part II External aspects
6. The New Global Landscape and Energy Politics in the 21st Century
Klaus Segbers

7. The role of the ECT in EU–Russia energy relations
Andrey Konoplyanik

8. Global energy security and EU energy policy
Severin Fischer

9. Rule-maker or rule-taker? The EU and the shifting global political economy of energy
Thijs Van de Graaf

10. The International Energy Charter: A new Impetus for Global Energy Governance?
Sijbren de Jong

11. The EU Energy Security Strategy in the Caspian Sea Region: Addressing the Bear in the Room
Stratos Pourzitakis

12. Russian Energy Projects and the Global Climate, Geopolitics and Development Conundrum
Slawomir Raszewski

Part III Economic, social and legal aspects
13. The Dark Side of Power: Corruption and Bribery within the Energy Industry
Costantino Grasso

14. Electricity and gas markets
Guy Block and Elvira Saitova

15. Energy Justice: a concept to make the Pigouvian tax work
Jan Schmitz, Kai Menzel and Fabian Dittrich

16. Energy and law of the sea
Stephen Minas

17. Access to an effective remedy in business-related human rights violations in the context of oil and gas disputes
Youseph Farah and Malakee Makhoul

18. EU energy law in the maritime sector
Beatriz Huarte Melgar

19. A (Legal) Challenge to Privacy: On the Implementation of Smart Meters in the EU and the US
Max Baumgart

20. Paris Agreement: The Evolution of International Law Standards in the Post-Ontological Framework
Antonio Morelli

21. Social Science as a Starting Point?
Michael Kattirtzi

Part IV Environmental and technological aspects
22. EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Preventing Carbon Leakage before and after the Paris Agreement
Kati Kulovesi

23. Energy and environment
József Feiler and Peter Vajda

24. Are smart grids the key to EU energy security?
Filippos Proedrou

25. Renewable Energy, Waste Management and the Circular Economy in the EU: Solar PV and Wind Power
Feja Lesniewska

26. The role of renewable energy law and policy in meeting the EU’s energy security challenges
Penelope Crossley

27. Energy futures: New approaches to energy choices
David Elliott

28. EU Energy Innovation Policy: The curious case of Energy Efficiency
Jan Rosenow and Florian Kern

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