Towards a European Energy Union

Volker Roeben is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Centre for Global Priorities at Swansea University and concurrently Visiting Professor of Law at China University of Political Science Beijing and Law and Adjunct Professor at Turku University, Finland. He was interim legal adviser of the European Energy Charter and senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Public International Law at Heidelberg. He has written widely on public international national law and European Union law, and currently works on the project of an associate citizenship for British nationals commissioned by the European Parliament.

'… this book still maintains its appeal to the energy law scholar; the conceptual grounding and analyses are excellently crafted. Chapters 2 and 5, in particular, would attract an audience that is wider than those focused on the EU only.' Tedd Moya Mose, International Energy Law Review

• Introduction; 1. Establishing the European Energy Union; 2. Rules-based energy governance world-wide: regulation of energy in international law; 3. Realising the European Energy Union in union law: internal and external regulation of the energy cycle; 4. The role of coordinated member states law in a European Energy Union; 5. Regulating energy through an integrated legal regime. Formation, normative questions, and global regulatory law.