Towards a European Energy Union - European Energy Strategy in International Law

This book outlines the legal regime underpinning the European Energy Union, which provides secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Establishing the European Energy Union; 2. Rules-based energy governance world-wide: regulation of energy in international law; 3. Realising the European Energy Union in union law: internal and external regulation of the energy cycle; 4. The role of coordinated member states law in a European Energy Union; 5. Regulating energy through an integrated legal regime. Formation, normative questions, and global regulatory law.

About the author

Volker Roeben is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Centre for Global Priorities at Swansea University and concurrently Visiting Professor of Law at China University of Political Science Beijing and Law and Adjunct Professor at Turku University, Finland. He was interim legal adviser of the European Energy Charter and senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Public International Law at Heidelberg. He has written widely on public international national law and European Union law, and currently works on the project of an associate citizenship for British nationals commissioned by the European Parliament.

Summary

The European Energy Union aims to provide secure, sustainable and affordable energy for all European citizens by 2030. This book outlines the legal regime underpinning this regulatory strategy, which integrates European Union law with international law and with the law of the member states and affiliated states.

Product details

• Authors: Volker Roeben, Volker (Swansea University) Roeben, Roeben Volker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781107142817
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14281-7
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Internationales Recht, Europe, LAW / International, Legal Reference / Law Profession, LAW / Military, International Law, EU (European Union), Environment law, EU & European institutions, Alternative & renewable energy industries, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law