International regulations (DROI754_S3E )

• Semester 7
• Duration :  Within one semester  
• Type: Mandatory

• Student workload:  Lecture (CM): 9 hours

• Applicability: ESBC and SOLEM course

• Teaching and learning method : seminar, case studies, discussion 

• Module examination:  1 group presentation (50%) , 1 individual oral exam (50%) 

Responsible person for the module: Matheus BASSANI  (Brazil) and Damien BOUVIER, Senior Lecturer in Public Law (USMB, Faculté de droit, Centre Antoine Favre)

Major intended learning outcomes 

Upon completion of the module students will: 

• understand and analyse the concepts related to the main goals of Energy law policies, both at international and European levels; 
• be able to identify the international and European legal framework applying to energy trade and integration, considering solar energy specific cases; 
• be able to criticize and deal with the main legal mechanisms applied to energy field at the international and European level. 

Good knowledge of International Public Law and EU Law 

Part I: International Energy Law (12h) 

1. Introduction
2. Concepts
   1. Energy sources - renewability 
   2. Infrastructure - natural monopoly - geopolitics 
   3. Energy security
   4. Energy efficiency
   5. Energy access 

3. International Trade Law  

1. 1. Energy – good/service 
   2. Intergovernmental Organizations IGO’s
   3. Specific cases 

4. International Law and related topic

1. 1. Energy Transition - Climate Change 
   2. Digitalization – blockchain 

5. Topics for discussion/presentations 

Part II : European Union Energy Law (9h) 

1. Introduction
2. Division of Competences in the field of Energy
3. Treaty Freedoms and EU Energy Law
4. Sector Specific Regulation
5. EU Competition Law and Energy Law
6. State Aid and the Energy Sector
7. Sustainable Development and EU Energy Law
8. External Elements of EU Energy La

Mandatory readings:  

BRADBROOK Adrian. Energy and law — searching for new directions. In: STEPHENS, Dale; BABIE Paul. Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam. University of Adelaide Press. (2016). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.20851/j.ctt1sq5x0z.6  

COTTIER, Thomas et al.. Energy in WTO law and policy. World Trade Organization. Available at: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/wtr10_forum_e/wtr10_7may10_e.pdf.  

Suggested readings: 

BAILLEUL, David et al. (dir), L’énergie solaire: aspects juridiques. Chambéry : Lextenso Éditions, 2010. 

FATOUROS, Arghyrios A. An international legal framework for energy. In: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 332. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008. 

JONES, C & KETTLWELL W, (ed), EU Energy Law, Claeys & Casteels, 2020 (Volume I to Volume X). 

KARNS, Margaret P.; MINGST, Karen A. International organizations: the politics and processes of global governance. 2 ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. 

HEFFRON, R.J, Energy Law: An Introduction, Springer International Publishing, 2015 

LEAL-ARCAS, Rafael; FILIS, Andrew. The fragmented governance of the global energy economy: a legal-institutional analysis. The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 2013. Available at <http://jwelb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/19/jwelb.jwt011.abstract>. 

MEADOWS, Donella; RANDERS, Jorgen; MEADOWS, Dennis. Limits to Growth: the 30-year update. London: Earthscan, 2004. 

SCHRIJVER, Nico J.. Permanent sovereignty over natural resources, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, 2010. Available at http://ilmc.univie.ac.at/uploads/media/PSNR_empil.pdf.  

SELIVANOVA, Yulia. The WTO and Energy WTO Rules and Agreements of Relevance to the Energy Sector. International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development – ICTSD. Available at <http://ictsd.org/downloads/2008/05/the20wto20and20energy.pdf>. 

SWEENEY, J. L. Economic Theory of Depletable Resources: An Introduction. In: SWEENEY, J. L.; KNEESE, A. V. (Orgs.). Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics. [s.l.]: Elsevier B.V., 1993, p. 759. 

TALLUS, K, EU Energy Law and Policy: A Critical Account, OUP, 2020