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Law and governance in the Anthropocene (2022)
Journal Article
Woolley, O., & Harrington, C. (2022). Law and governance in the Anthropocene. Global Policy, 13(S3), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13168

This special issue on ‘Law and Governance in the Anthropocene’ brings together scholars from the disciplines of law and international relations to examine the ramifications of the Anthropocene for global governance and international law. The predomin... Read More about Law and governance in the Anthropocene.

Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea (2022)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2022). Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea. In J. Kraska, & Y. Park (Eds.), Emerging Technology and the Law of the Sea (35-62). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009042178.003

Contemporary technologies for offshore electricity generation and transmission enable sea uses of types and at scales that could not have been envisaged when the text of UNCLOS was agreed. The chapter considers whether UNCLOS is able to accommodate t... Read More about Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea.

Regulating the promotion of renewable electricity consumption and production: a European Union case study (2021)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Regulating the promotion of renewable electricity consumption and production: a European Union case study. In M. Roggenkamp, K. de Graaf, & R. Fleming (Eds.), Energy Law, Climate Change, and the Environment (388-398). Edward Elgar Publishing

Increasing renewable electricity production and consumption is viewed worldwide as a desirable policy goal, for reasons including climate change mitigation and energy security enhancement. However, realising this goal is far from simple. This is due... Read More about Regulating the promotion of renewable electricity consumption and production: a European Union case study.

Renewable Energy Consumption (2021)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Renewable Energy Consumption. In E. Woerdman, M. Roggenkamp, & M. Holwerda (Eds.), Essential EU Climate Law: 2nd edition (98-129). (2nd ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing

• Promoting the consumption of renewable energy is one of the key means to reduce carbon emissions from electricity production, heating and transportation, while it also improves energy security and contributes to economic growth; • Repealing the ear... Read More about Renewable Energy Consumption.

Climate Law and Environmental Law: Is Conflict Between Them Inevitable? (2021)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Climate Law and Environmental Law: Is Conflict Between Them Inevitable?. In B. Mayer, & A. Zahar (Eds.), Debating Climate Law (398-411). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108879064.029

Climate law has often been framed as a component of environmental law. Under this conception, environmental law and climate law are mutually supportive endeavours towards sustainable development. Yet, in a growing number of instances, climate action... Read More about Climate Law and Environmental Law: Is Conflict Between Them Inevitable?.

Ecological Law in the Anthropocene (2020)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Ecological Law in the Anthropocene. In K. Anker, P. Burdon, G. Garver, M. Maloney, & C. Sbert (Eds.), From Environmental to Ecological Law. Routledge

The chapter examines how the Anthropocene’s advent has affected the ability of humans to stop their activities from having negative ecological effects by applying legal controls to them. It finds that attempts to prevent actions from harming ecosyste... Read More about Ecological Law in the Anthropocene.

What Would Ecological Climate Change Law Look Like?: Developing a Method for Analysing the International Climate Change Regime from an Ecological Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Woolley, O. (2020). What Would Ecological Climate Change Law Look Like?: Developing a Method for Analysing the International Climate Change Regime from an Ecological Perspective. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 29(1), 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12310

Statements and commitments made in the climate change treaties record the desire of their parties to preserve ecosystem functionality and situations that depend on this as an outcome of their collective response to global warming. Despite this, littl... Read More about What Would Ecological Climate Change Law Look Like?: Developing a Method for Analysing the International Climate Change Regime from an Ecological Perspective.

Renewable energy consumption. (2015)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2015). Renewable energy consumption. In E. Woerdman, M. Roggenkamp, & M. Holwerda (Eds.), Essential EU Climate Law (125-156). Edward Elgar Publishing

Establishing an Offshore Electricity Grid:A Legal Analysis of Grid Developments in the North Sea and in US Waters (2012)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O., Schaumberg, P. J., & Michel, G. S. (2012). Establishing an Offshore Electricity Grid:A Legal Analysis of Grid Developments in the North Sea and in US Waters. In M. M. Roggenkamp, L. Barrera-Hernandez, D. N. Zillman, & I. D. Guayo (Eds.), Energy Networks and the Law: Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets (180-204). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199645039.001.0001