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A Club of Incumbents? The African Union and Coups d\u27Etat
This Article considers the response of the Organization for African Unity (the OAU, founded in 1963) and its successor, the African Union (the AU, which began operating in 2003) to coups d\u27etat, since 1997. The Article addresses these organizations\u27 policies concerning unconstitutional changes of government, as well as the application of these policies. In considering these issues, the Article examines the response of the AU to the coups in Togo (2005), Mauritania (2005 and 2008), Guinea (2008), Madagascar (2009), and Niger (2010). In each case, the AU was unwilling to recognize the government that came to power through coup, even when the regime had popular and political support within the state. The Article concludes by arguing that the AU should pursue a more nuanced policy in this area
Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy Law in Transition
The present energy economy, with its heavy dependence on fossil fuels, is not sustainable
over the medium to long term for many interconnected reasons. Climate change is now recognized as
posing a serious threat. Energy and resource decisions involving the carbon fuels therefore play a
large role in this threat. Fossil fuel reserves may also be running short and many of the major
reserves are in politically unstable parts of the world.
Yet citizens in nations with rapidly developing economies aspire to the benefits of the modern
energy economy. China and India alone have 2.4 billion potential customers for cars, industries,
and electrical services. Even so, more than half of the world's citizens still lack access to
energy. Decisions involving fossil fuels are therefore a significant part of the development
equation.
This volume explains how the law can impede or advance the shift to a world energy picture
significantly different from that which exists today.
It first examines the factors that create the problems of the present carbon economy, including
environmental concerns and development goals. It then provides international and regional legal
perspectives, examining public international law, regional legal structures, the responses of
international legal bodies, and the role of major international nongovernmental actors. The book
then moves on to explore sectoral perspectives including the variety of renewable energy sources,
new carbon fuels, nuclear power, demand controls, and energy efficiency. Finally, the authors
examine how particular States are, could, or should, be adapting legally to the challenges of
moving beyond the carbon economy.
Contributors to this volume - Catherine Redgwell: Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean of
the Faculty of Laws, University College London
Donald N. Zillman: Godfrey Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law, Portland, Maine
Yinka Omorogbe: Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Lila K. Barrera-Hernandez: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary,
Canada
David Keith: Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, Department of Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering and Department of Economics, University of Calgary and Adjunct Professor,
Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
George 'Rock' Pring: Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
John Gulliver: Partner and Chair, International Practice and Energy Law Groups, Pierce Atwood
Attorneys, Portland, Maine
Fui Tsikata: Reindorf Chambers Lawyers, Ghana
Abeeku Brew-Hammond, Associate Professor of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Manager of Global Village Energy Partnership Technical Secretariat in
the United Kingdom
Professor Adrian Bradbrook: University of Adelaide, Australia
Richard Ottinger: Professor and Dean Emeritus, Pace University Law School, White Plains, New York
Alistair R. Lucas: Professor of Law, University of Calgary
Barry Barton: School of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Inigo del Guayo: Professor of Administrative Law, University of Almeria, Spain
Anita Ronne: Associate Professor of Energy Law, University of Copenhagen
Aileen McHarg: Senior Lecturer in Public Law, University of Glasgow
Ulf Hammer: Professor of Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Oslo
Nigel Bankes: Professor of Law, University of Calgary
Martha Roggenkamp: Professor of Energy Law, University of Groningen, Netherlands and Counsel,
Simmons and Simmons, Rotterdam
Dr. Wang Mingyuan: Executive Director and Associate Professor, Center for Environmental, Natural
Resources and Energy Law, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing
Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier: Professor of Public Law, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte, Brazil
Lee Godden: Associate Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Jose Juan Gonzalez: Department of Law, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
Kazuhiro Nakatani: Professor of International Law, University of Tokyo
Dr. Lavanya Rajamani: Associate Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Irina Krasnova: Professor of Law, Moscow State Juridical Academy, Russia
Lawrence Asekome Atsegbua: Professor of Law, University of Benin, Nigeri