Leonie Reins

Biographic Data

ID1746394
NAMELeonie Reins
GIVEN NAMESLeonie
FAMILY NAMEReins
SIGNATUREREINS L
AFFILIATIONSErasmus University Rotterdam
ORCID0000-0002-2191-2979
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Belém or Bedlam? Transnational Environmental Law in an Era of Contested Multilateralism

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2026

    of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 1 convened at the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Belm (Brazil), the same country that hosted the famous Rio Earth Summit of 1992. 2 Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva dubbed the 2025 event the 'COP of truth', 3 and delegates had no choice but to confront a number of stark realities: 2024 was the warmest year on record, at approximately 1.55C abo…

  • Legal Pluralism in Transnational Environmental Law

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2025

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  • A Critical Review of the Energy Charter Treaty from an Earth System Law Perspective

    Open AccessEndrius Cocciolo, Leonie ReinsARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2025

    The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is one of the best-known and most controversial of the international investment treaties. The energy transition necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement climate target will require large and sustained flows of investment capital. Scholars, environmentalists, industry representatives, and governmental officials have intensively debated the modernization of the ECT. The main point of contention is whether the ECT can…

  • Breaking Path Dependencies through Transnational Environmental Law

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2025

    actors and industry lobby groups have concentrated wealth and authority as well as the motivation to resist the passage of laws that would support effective regulation in the broader public interest').In the climate change context, the concept of 'carbon lock-in' was put forward by Unruh, with other researchers distinguishing between 'infrastructure/technological', 'institutional', and 'behavioural' types of lock-in

  • Negotiating the Anthropocene: From Bonn to Belém

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2025

  • The Complexity of Transnational Environmental Law

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2024

  • Salvaging Environmental Law

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2024

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  • Transnational Environmental Law and the Future

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2024

    The re-election of United States (US) President Donald Trump in November 2024 has evoked a sense of dj vu.In 2017, a Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) editorial following his initial election expressed deep concerns about potential upheavals in environmental law while highlighting the resilience that polycentric mechanisms might offer in the face of disrupted US environmental policies. 1Since then, scholarly interest in the interplay between …

  • Solidarity in European Union Law and Its Application in the Energy Sector

    Open AccessKaisa Huhta, Leonie ReinsARTICLEInternational and Comparative Law…2023Cited by: 1References: 7

    This article explores the meaning of solidarity in European Union (EU) law in the context of the energy sector and the ongoing energy crisis. Energy provides a powerful and topical sectoral example of the fundamental role and diverse functions of solidarity in EU law. In its OPAL ruling in 2021, the Court of Justice of the EU established that energy solidarity constitutes a legally binding principle of EU energy law that should inform EU institut…

  • The Quest to Close the Accountability Gap in Environmental Law

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2023

    This issue of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL), like most, presents contributions that cover a variety of legal domains, among which are environmental law, biodiversity law, energy law, and climate law.The equally varied problems that the authors of these contributions examine range from climate damage and extreme weather modification to decarbonization, approached through different doctrinal and comparative methodologies.Notwithstanding the…

  • The Methodologies of Transnational Environmental Law Scholarship

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2023

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  • This Battle is Hard and Huge: Intractable Problems in Transnational Environmental Law

    Open AccessThijs Etty, Josephine Van Zeben et al.ARTICLETransnational Environmental Law2023

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  • Shale gas extraction, precaution and prevention: A conversation on regulatory responses

    Open AccessRuven Fleming, Leonie ReinsARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2016Cited by: 4References: 3