The future shape of EU energy law and policy

Journal article

Before I had even arrived in Cambridge as a young lecturer in my first full-time academic post, Alan Dashwood had extended the hand of friendship. Soon after I arrived, we began our first coauthored project together, and I have been fortunate to enjoy his guidance, support and friendship ever since. He has always kindly indulged my perhaps more maverick legal interests, yet has also consistently insisted that energy law does not fall into that category. I am immensely grateful for all of this and hope that I may crave his indulgence one more time with this contribution on the future of EU energy law and policy. The twin themes of this chapter will be, first, the need for careful accommodation at the EU level of the diversity of Member State interests and concerns in the energy field (thus respecting the nature of the EU as a ‘constitutional order of states’) and, second, the slow but real shift in EU (and some national) energy law and policy away from reliance upon market mechanisms and towards more complex regimes (involving market and other regulatory tools) to achieve a myriad of public interest goals.

Authors: Johnston, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Pages: 397–420
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2011-03-03
• DOI: 10.5040/9781472565402.ch-021
• EISBN: 9781472565402
• ISBN: 9781849460460
• Language: English
• Keywords: EU law; environmental law; energy law