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Energy Trade and the WTO: Implications for Renewable Energy and the OPEC Cartel

Unlike other contributions, this paper deals with the subject of energy and the WTO in a comprehensive way. Most articles either concentrate on the way one specific energy source is dealt with in the WTO framework (renewable energy, fossil fuels, and so on), or simply introduce the issues raised by this complicated relationship without further analysis. The way of approaching OPEC’s production quotas in the WTO arena is also new and offers interesting ideas and causes for reflection.

The JIEL of Georgetown University Law Center published by OUP is the main reference for the experts in international economic law and the scholars who are approaching international economic law from other disciplines such as the socio-legal studies and critical legal studies.

This paper has been originally drafted by the author during his period as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. It benefited of classes, conferences and workshops at HLS and the Kennedy School of Government with participants from Governmental institutions and private sector (British Petroleum, Shell, etc).

Drafts of this paper have been presented at different international workshops and conferences:

1) Workshop series of the East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, Boston, USA, 27th February 2012;

2) Workshop on Sustainable Energy Investments, Tsinghua University, Center for Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law (THCEREL), Beijing, China, 11th December 2012;

3) International Law Association Annual Conference, ILA Hellenic Regional Conference 2013, “Imperium Iuris: Governance, Trade, Resources”, Cape Sounion, Athens, Greece 29-31 August 2013 (attended by around 300-400 scholars). Conferences have been participated by officials of the EU Commission, Legal Officers from the WTO Legal Affairs Division, practitioners from law firms and hundreds of scholars of different nationality.

The author acts as Scientific Vice-Coordinator and Principal Investigator for the EPSEI project funded by the EU Commission as stated in the paper first footnote.