Editors
Ruven C Fleming
is an Assistant Professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen and a Visiting Lecturer at the TU Berlin, Germany. In 2015 he joined the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability. His research interest is energy law, with a particular focus on ‘unconventional’ forms of energy production, regulating hydrogen, renewable energy and energy investment and trade law.
Dr. Fleming is the author of ‘Shale Gas, the Environment and Energy Security’ (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), and an editor of the comprehensive ‘Encyclopedia of Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment’ (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2021). He has authored numerous book-chapters as well as articles in international law journals.
He undertook undergraduate law studies in Germany at the University of Marburg. He went on to conduct Russian language studies at Moscow State University Lomonossow/Russia and gained work experience at a Russian/German law firm in Moscow. Prior to the commencement of his research in Groningen, Dr. Fleming received a Master in Oil and Gas Law (LL.M) as well as a PhD in Law from the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Kaisa Huhta
Dr, works at the uef Law School as a senior lecturer in EU law and as a researcher at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (
Her research focuses on EU energy law and in particular the evolving EU legal setting for electricity. She is the author of Capacity Mechanisms in EU Energy Law: Ensuring Security of Supply in the Energy Transition (Kluwer Law International 2019). In addition to issues relating to security of supply in the energy transition, she has published extensively on the role of the consumers in the electricity markets and the application of general EU law to the energy markets. Dr Huhta actively carries out consultancy work in the fields of EU and energy law. In addition to her research and consultancy work, Dr Huhta frequently speaks at international conferences, seminars and training events.
Dr, joined the Tilburg Law School as an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (tilt) in 2017.
Prior to joining tilt, she worked as a PhD candidate and then as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research project, entitled ‘the coherent regulation on energy and environment – using shale gas as a case study’, was financed by the Research Foundation Flanders (fwo). In addition, Dr Reins has worked as a legal advisor at a Brussels-based environmental law and policy consultancy, where she was involved in projects relating to environmental, energy and climate change law and policy. Dr Reins holds an llm in International, European and Comparative Energy and Environmental Law. She has been part of, and managed, several complex multi-country legal and policy studies for the EU institutions. These projects dealt with a range of topics, such as the precautionary principle and risk management, unconventional gas and environmental claims.
Authors
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui
is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bergen and member of the Bergen Offshore Wind Centre (bow) and the Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (beccle). Dr Herrera Anchustegui’s research focus is the regulation of energy markets, at the intersection between energy, competition and public procurement law, areas in which he has published extensively. He obtained his PhD at the University of Bergen for which he received the Concurrences 2017 Award for best PhD of the year in Competition Law and Economics for his work ‘Buyer Power in EU Competition Law’ (Concurrences 2017). He also received the Meltzer Award for Young Researchers in 2018.
Jennifer Campion
is a Lecturer and Member of the Centre for Environmental, Resources and Energy Law at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Dr Campion’s research interests are in energy and natural resources law, environmental law and property law. Her specific research interests at present are in climate change mitigation and energy justice.
Lea Diestelmeier
is an Assistant Professor at the Groningen Center of Energy Law and Sustainability, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen. Her research expertise
Piti Eiamchamroonlarp
is the Director of the llm in Business Law International Program at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). He holds an llb (with Honours) and an llm (in Public Law) from Thammasat University. Sponsored by the Thai Government, he later obtained an llm in Oil and Gas Law and a PhD (focusing on the same area) from the University of Aberdeen, UK. His teaching and research interests lie in energy law and law for public-private partnership (ppp) projects. Dr Eiamchamroonlarp has conducted legal research on third-party access (tpa) and its model agreements for the Electricity General Authority of Thailand (egat) as well as energy industry mergers and acquisitions for the Energy Regulatory Commission (erc).
Romain Mauger
has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen since August 2017. After a Bachelor of Law at the Catholic University of Lyon (awarded in 2009) and an llm in Environmental Law at the University of Montpellier, France (obtained in 2011), he worked for more than three years as a wind farm developer and legal advisor at a subsidiary of Engie in Montpellier, France. Dr Mauger completed his PhD in Law in 2017 at the University of Montpellier. The focus of his doctoral research was on the energy transition legal framework in France, and especially on electricity production (including the increase of renewables and participatory financial mechanisms). Currently, he is involved in an H2020 project called SMart IsLand Energy (smile) systems, which assesses the existing legal framework in place on islands that form part of EU Member States in relation to smart grids (e.g. encompassing electricity storage, electricity/heat combination, micro-grids) and proposes improvements.
is an Associate Professor of Petroleum, Energy and Environmental Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. A prolific and highly regarded scholar, Professor Olawuyi has practised and taught energy law in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York, China University of Political Science and Law and senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. In 2019, he was a Herbert Smith Freehills Visiting Professor at Cambridge University. He was formerly an international energy lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada llp where he served on the firm’s global committee on energy investments in Africa. He has delivered lectures on energy law in over 40 countries. Professor Olawuyi has published close to a hundred articles, book chapters and books on petroleum law, energy and international environmental law. His most recent book publications include The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance (Cambridge University Press 2016) and Extractives Industry Law in Africa (Springer 2018). Professor Olawuyi serves on the executive committees and boards of several organizations. He is Vice Chair of the International Law Association, co-chair of the Africa Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (2016–2019), and a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the International Bar Association’s Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (seeril). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy.
Professor Olawuyi holds a dphil in Energy and Environmental Law from the University of Oxford as well as llms from Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Alberta, Canada; Ontario, Canada; and Nigeria. Professor Olawuyi is a regular media commentator on all aspects of natural resources, energy and environmental law. Further information about his profile and publications can be found at
Seita Romppanen
is a Senior Lecturer in International Environmental Law at the uef Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (cceel). She is uef Director of the Nordic Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Law (nompel) and the uef Coordinator of the uef-UN Environment Programme on meas. In her academic research, Dr. Romppanen has published on several topics relating to international and EU environmental law, especially in relation to climate law (i.e. lulucf, effort sharing and renewable energy, circular (bio)economy
Niko Soininen
is a Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on the regulation and governance of social-ecological systems with particular emphasis on freshwater and marine systems. He is a subproject pi in a Strategic Research Council funded interdisciplinary project entitled BlueAdapt, which studies adaptive governance as a mechanism for reconciling resilience of aquatic ecosystems and sustainable production of energy and food. He is co-editor in chief for the Finnish Environmental Law Review. He co-edited Transboundary Marine Spatial Planning and International Law (Earthscan/Routledge 2015) and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on marine environmental law, water law, and nature conservation law, as well as adaptive law and governance theory. Outside academia, he has worked as a consultant for helcom, the World Bank, and for several ministries responsible for implementing marine environmental law, water law and nature conservation law in Finland.
Katrien Steenmans
is a Lecturer in Law at Coventry Law School and a research associate of the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, exploring the regulatory and policy frameworks that enable public-private finance flows for climate change mitigation and adaptation projects. Her doctoral research at the University of Surrey investigated the role of regulations, policies, and property rights in enabling waste exchanges between organizations. Her ongoing research within the sphere of waste law focuses in particular on the circular economy and implications for different property rights in waste. In relation to both climate finance law and waste law, she is exploring how blockchain technologies can be used to underpin and support regulations and policies. Dr Steenmans has also worked for the Urban Land Institute, the Civil Justice Council and University College London.
Paul Samuel Tamuno
is currently a Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of the Private and Property Law Department at the Faculty of Law, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Achinthi Vithanage
is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law and the Environmental and Energy Law Fellow at George Washington University Law School, where she teaches international environmental law as well as courses on environmental natural resources policy and sustainability. She graduated from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, with a double degree in Law and International Studies and was admitted as a solicitor in 2012. She has worked for the Energy & Water Ombudsman, community legal centres, and the corporate sector, and was also Chair of the New South Wales Young Lawyers International Law Committee. She was a merit scholarship recipient at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University where she completed her llms and graduated summa cum laude. She has published widely and presented internationally on issues of international environmental law relating to biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, marine protected areas, renewable energy law for sustainable development, and energy justice.
Moritz Wüstenberg
works as a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (uef) Law School. Moritz has an educational background in biochemical engineering (University College London, 2008–2011 (BEng, hons)) and chemical engineering (Aalto University, 2011–2014, (MSc. Tech, with distinction)). From 2013–2014 Dr Wüstenberg completed the llm Diploma Program in International and European Energy Law and Policy at the uef Law School. In 2019, he defended his PhD thesis titled EU-Russia Natural Gas Trade: An Investigation into the Need for Regulatory Reform Following Russia’s wto Accession. He has made extended research visits to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies as well as the University of Geneva. Dr Wüstenberg has published in peer reviewed international journals on various aspects of energy trade regulation, focusing specifically on the role of the wto. He has also worked on various consultancy projects