Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources

Aileen McHarg is a senior lecturer in public law at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has wide-ranging research interests in the area of constitutional and administrative law, with a particular specialism in regulatory theory and practice, especially relating to energy utilities. She has written extensively on this topic and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Utilities Law Review and of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law. Current research projects include analysis of the role of legally-binding targets in promoting renewable energy and of the relationship between devolution and the regulatory state.Barry Barton is a Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He specializes in energy and natural resources law, with particular reference to mining law, mining investment disputes, electricity market reform, energy efficiency, theories of regulation, and property rights in natural resources. He is Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association, Member of the Journal Board of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, and Editor of the Australian Energy and Resources Law Journal. Research programmes under way in which he takes part are Intercoast (coastal zone management involving Waikato and Bremen Universities) and Energy Cultures (with the University of Otago). Adrian Bradbrook is the Bonython Chair of Law at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the former Dean of the Faculty of Law (1991-95). He specializes in sustainable energy law, environmental law and property law. He has held the position of Chair of the Working Group on Energy Law and Climate Change for the IUCN (World Conservation Union) and has worked on a number of UN projects relating to energy law. He is a Member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, the Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy and the Australian Property Law Journal. He is the recipient of several major Australian Research Council Discovery and other grants relating to sustainable energy law.Professor Lee Godden is Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law at the Melbourne Law School. Her research interests span resources law, environmental law and property law, with a focus on water law and climate change. She has written extensively on the use of market mechanisms, such as property rights in 'cap and trade' instruments. She has a current project investigating climate change impacts on water resources, as well as long-standing research interests in agreement-making between indigenous peoples and mining interests. She has conducted comparative research in Australia, Canada, South Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific.

I end this review with an apology to the 26 contributors to this collection whose names I have omitted and whose learned insights I have failed, in the interests of brevity, to acknowledge. I can only say that this collection is a treasure trove into which every lawyer and student of law should delve if they aspire to become an energy and natural resources lawyer.

• 1. Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources ; PART 1: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES ; 2. Different Views of the Cathedral: The Literature on Property Law Theory ; 3. Public and Private Rights to Natural Resources and Differences in their Protection? ; 4. Property Rights Created Under Statute in Common Law Legal Systems ; 5. Property Law Sources and Analogies in International Law ; PART 2: NATURAL RESOURCE REGIMES ; 6. Property Rights in Oil and Gas Under Domanial Regimes ; 7. The Rule of Capture: the Least Worst Property Rule for Oil and Gas ; 8. Models for State Ownership on the Norwegian Continental Shelf ; 9. Natural Gas Development and Land Use: Conflict Between Legal Rights and its Resolution ; 10. Got Title; Will Sell: Indigenous Rights to Land in Chile and Argentina ; 11. The Scope and Limitations of the Principle of National Property of Hydrocarbons in Mexico ; 12. Legal Models of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ownership in Brazilian Law ; 13. Who Owns the Economy? Property Rights, Privatization, and the Indonesian Constitution: The Electricity Law Case ; PART 3: PROPERTY RIGHTS, MARKETS, AND REGULATION ; 14. Ownership Models for Water Services: Implications for Regulation ; 15. Eminent Domain and Regulatory Changes ; 16. Restrictions on Foreign Investment in the Energy Sector for National Security Reasons: The Case of Japan ; 17. Ownership Unbundling and Property Rights in the EU Energy Sector ; 18. The Social Obligations of Ownership and the Regulation of Energy Utilities in the United Kingdom and the European Union ; PART 4: EMERGING PROPERTY REGIMES ; 19. The Role of the Common Law in Promoting Sustainable Energy Development in the Property Sector ; 20. Governing Common Resources: Environmental Markets and Property in Water ; 21. The Significance of Property Rights in Biotic Sequestration of Carbon ; 22. Community Based Property Rights Regimes and Resource Conservation in India's Forests