Energy Law

Recommended Prerequisites

Public policies.

Teaching Methods

Seminars.

Learning Outcomes

Organization of the national energy sector and each of the sub-branches into which it is divided

Energy law, environmental law: one of the main "contributions" to the changes in general administrative law, and throughout the course we will give special emphasis to these issues, focused on public law..

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

art I

Legal framework for energy law

1. The energy issue

2. Energy law as a typical legal discipline of the "regulatory guarantee State"

3. Energy law in the context of public policy law

4. Energy law in the context of Europeanisation and the internationalisation of public law

5. The legal autonomy of energy law

6. Brief historical evolution towards the autonomy of energy law in Brazil

Part II

Organisation of the energy sectors

7. The oil and fuel sector

8. The electricity sector

9. The natural gas sector

10. Regulation

Part III

Autonomy of new special rights within energy law

12. The right to energy efficiency

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The assessment is based on two components: active participation in classes and the preparation of papers on predefined topics: 100.0%

Bibliography

TAVARES DA SILVA, Suzana, Direito da Energia, Coimbra Editora-Wolters Kluwer, 2011

AIE, Renewables in Global Energy Suplly, 2007 (recurso on-line, acesso 09.09.2011)

BHATTACHARYYA, Subhes, Energy Economics. Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance, Springer, London, 2011

CARRÀ Sergio (org.), Le fonti di energia, il Mulino, Bologna, 2008

CHEBEL-HORSTMANN, Nadia, La Régulation du Marché de L’Électricité, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006

CLÔ, Alberto, Il rebus energético, il Mulino, Bologna, 2008

HERMES, Georg, «Problemi dell’accesso alla rete», Erminio Ferrari (org.) I servizi a rete in Europa, Raffaello Cortina Editora, Milano, 2000

SEN, Myriam, Non-State Regulatory Regimes, Springer, Heidelberg, 2011

VICENTE, Marta, A quebra da legalidade material na actividade administrativa de regulação económica, Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, 2011