International Energy Law: Concepts, Context and Players: A Preliminary Introduction
Article from: OGEL 4 (2003), in Roundup of Articles
Summary
International energy law is not only, as in a state-centric classical perception, the public international law determined by the list of sources in Art 38 (1) of the ICJ statute. It also comprises the lex mercatoria of international commercial practice developed specifically for transactions in the energy industries and, perhaps, also comparative administrative law, or emerging common state practice of regulating the energy industries. Furthermore, one needs to include, and pay much more attention than is done at this time by public international lawyers narrowly ...