Melissa Loja (PhD Candidate) Wins 2014 Willoughby Prize for South China Sea Article

Congratulations to Melissa Loja (PhD candidate) on winning the 2014 Willoughby Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law.  The winning publication was titled "Is the Rule of Capture Countenanced in the South China Sea? The Policy and Practice of China, the Philippines and Vietnam" and was reported on in this blog in December 2014.  About the Willoughby Prize: In memory of Geoffrey Willoughby (1936-1989), one of the leading contributors to the development of United Kingdom oil and gas law both as practitioner and scholar, his partners in Herbert Smith, and the Trustees of the Energy, Petroleum, Mineral and Natural Resources Law and Policy Education Trust, in 1991 created a fund for the award of a Willoughby Prize. The Prize is awarded each year to the author or authors of an article of outstanding merit published during the year in the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law. 

      Every article submitted for publication in the Journal will be taken into consideration unless the author explicitly requests otherwise. In making his recommendation the Editor will have particular regard to the desirability of encouraging younger legal scholars, whether engaged in academic life or in legal practice, to undertake research on legal issues relating to energy, petroleum, minerals and natural resources law and policy. 

Honourable Mention for the 2015 Richard Macrory Prize (Jolene Lin)

Congratulations to Jolene Lin and our former colleague Kelvin Low on receiving an Honourable Mention for the 2015 Richard Macrory Prize, an annual award for the best articles in the Journal of Environmental Law, published by Oxford University Press.  The recognition was received for their article, KFK Low & J Lin, "Carbon Credits as EU Like It: Property, Immunity, TragiCO2medy?" which was reported on earlier in his blog.  The judging panel, consisting of five Journal board members (excluding the General Editor), wrote the following about their article:

"This article is an excellent example of how excellent legal scholarship can make a valuable contribution in environmental law. The authors consider, from a property law perspective, the legal nature of a carbon credit. This thoughtful and rigorous analysis would be very helpful in a relevant legal dispute. The approach of the article moves the subject on in thinking about how environmental law concepts and more conventional areas of legal doctrine interrelate, examining how environmental regulation interacts with legal systems more deeply."