Publication of the week: Denning Law Journal 28 (2016)

This special edition of the journal is edited by John Hatchard and Hephzibah Egede of Buckingham Law School and the University of Buckingham Centre for Extractive Energy Studies (UBCEES).  It contains papers from a UBCEES conference in 2016, and contributions from members of the Advisory Board.

The papers are structured under the following sub-themes:
1. Law and Governance
2. Risks, Change and Uncertainty
3. Current Developments in Law and Emergent Legal Thinking
4. Perspectives of Justice and Legal Governance
These are themes that Lord Denning identified with in his long career as a progressive reformer. He passionately canvassed for the law to keep abreast with societal changes. The evolving global energy industry also requires iconoclastic legal thinking as it navigates its way through interesting and volatile times.

Contents:

Current Commentary

• John C. LaMaster, Marc Hammerson, “Brexit and the UK oil & gas sector”, 9-15

Articles

• Ben Holland, “Decommissioning in the United Kingdom continental shelf: Decomissioning security disputes”, 19-36
• John McEldowney, David Salter, “Environmental taxation in the UK: The Climate Change Levy and policy making”, 37-65
• Jae Sundaram (Buckingham), “Offshore oil pollution damage: In pursuit of a uniform international civil liability regime”, 66-108
• John Hatchard (Buckingham), “Combating the bribery of foreign public officials and the “art of persuasion”: The case of Alstom and the energy sector”, 109-137
• Hephzibah Egede (Buckingham), “African ‘social ordering’ grundnorms and the development of an African lex petrolea?”, 138-165

All articles are freely available via the University of Buckingham Press website.