This book focusses on key practical issues faced by oil and gas companies in different parts of the world in negotiating and implementing Joint Operating Agreements.

In recent decades, the liability of public authorities has been one of the main areas of development in tort law in Europe, with major reforms implemented or considered at a national level, and a steady stream of major court decisions. During the same period, ‘Member State liability’ has also been recognised in the law of the EU, and the interplay of principles of national and EU law – and additionally the ‘just satisfaction’ jurisprudence of ...

Met zijn arresten nr. 144/2013 en 145/2013 van 7 november 2013 heeft het Grondwettelijk Hof, wegens strijdigheid met de Europese regelgeving en de Belgische Grondwet, bepaalde delen van het Grond- en Pandendecreet van 27 maart 2009 vernietigd.

A carefully selected and rigourously peer reviewed set of papers from the ‘Equal is not Enough’ conference hosted at Antwerp University in February 2015.

Concentrating solely on shale gas, this book is structured around five themes, namely an overview and introduction to shale gas activities, shale gas economics and energy security, access to shale gas resources, shale gas law and regulation, and the future of shale gas.

Biofuels are promoted as a type of renewable energy from biomass that replaces fossil fuels in transportation, in an attempt to achieve the three-fold objectives of energy security, rural development, and GHG emission reductions.

Met dit Jaarboek Energierecht 2015 lichten de auteurs de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen toe die zich tijdens het voorbije kalenderjaar hebben voorgedaan in het domein van het energierecht (in zijn ruime betekenis).

As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights...

This book offers a selection of the contributions presented at the EELF Conference.