The law of energy and natural resources has always had a strong focus on property as one of its components, but there are relatively few comparative, book-length, treatments of both property law and energy and natural resources law. The aim of this edited collection is to explore the multiple dimensions of the contemporary relationship between property and energy and natural resources law. Its genesis was the growing resurgence of global interest in questions of property in energy and resources and how it manifests itself across legal regimes around the world.

With an international and comparative character, the collection seeks to capture differences in the meaning of property, and the different views about the role it should play in a diverse range of contexts: civil law and common law; the law of indigenous communities; public law and private law; and national and international law. Key issues discussed include private rights and common property situations, privatization and regulation, competition for land use and resources, the role of property rights in environmental protection, and the balance between national sovereignty and the security of foreign investment.

The collection thus has relevance for a wide readership interested in the legal dimensions of property as an increasingly important aspect of the law for energy and resources across diverse countries, and at the international level. The contributors are established experts in the energy and natural resources law field, and the collection builds upon a body of previous collaborative work in this area.

About the Author:
Edited by Aileen McHarg, Senior Lecturer in Public Law, University of Glasgow, Barry Barton, Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Adrian Bradbrook, Bonython Professor of Law, Law School, University of Adelaide, and Lee Godden, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.

Contributors:
Nigel Bankes, University of Calgary
Lila K. Barrera-Hernández, University of Calgary, Canada
Simon Butt, Sydney Law School
Terence Daintith, University of Western Australia
Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier, Federal University Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Luis A. Erize, Abeledo Gottheil Abogados, Buenos Aires
Iñigo del Guayo, University of Almería
José Juan González, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Ulf Hammer, University of Oslo
Sarah Hendry, University of Dundee
Gunther Kühne, University of Göttingen
Tim Lindsey, University of Melbourne
Alastair R. Lucas, University of Calgary
Kazuhiro Nakatani, University of Tokyo
Yinka Omorogbe, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Peter K. Oniemola, University of Ibadan
Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Catherine Redgwell, University College London
Martha M. Roggenkamp, University of Groningen
Anita Rønne, University of Copenhagen Wang Mingyuan, Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing Jonnette Watson Hamilton, University of Calgary