Angus Johnston
CUF Lecturer
Angus Johnston is a CUF Lecturer and a Fellow in Law at University College, where he arrived in September 2010.
He read for the B.A. (Law with Law Studies in Europe) and the B.C.L. at Brasenose College and was elected to the Vinerian Scholarship in 1999. He read for the LL.M. in European Union Law and was also Lecturer at the Institute for Anglo-American Law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1997-8.
He was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 1999) and University Lecturer (from 2004) and then Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University (from 2008) until his appointment to Oxford. He has been a visitor to Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg; he is also an affiliated lecturer at Cambridge University and at the Jacobs University, Bremen.
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A Johnston and Guy Block, EU Energy Law (Oxford University Press 2012)
A Johnston, 'Instances and Analysis of Feedback in the Loop-flow between EC Law and National Private Law: Some Tentative Insights for Comparative and European Community Lawyers' in O. Remien (ed), Schuldrechtsmodernisierung und Europäisches Vertragsrecht (Mohr Siebeck 2008)
A Johnston, 'Legal issues raised by the introduction of take-or-pay contracts for renewables deployment in the UK' in B. Delvaux, M. Hunt and K. Talus (eds), EU Energy Law and Policy Issues – The Energy Law Research Forum Collection (Euroconfidentiel/European Study Service 2008)
A Johnston, 'The Future Shape of EU Energy Law and Policy' in Anthony Arnull, Catherine Barnard, Michael Dougan and Eleanor Spaventa (eds), A Constitutional Order of States? Essays in EU Law in Honour of Alan Dashwood (Hart Publishing 2011) [...]
The twin themes of this chapter are, first, the need for careful accommodation at the EU level of the diversity of Member State interests and concerns in the energy field ... and, second, the slow but real shift in EU (and some national) energy law and policy away from reliance upon market mechanisms and towards more complex regimes ... to achieve a myriad of public interest goals.
ISBN: 978-1-849460-046-0
A Johnston and others, 'The Proposed New EU Renewables Directive: Interpretation, Problems and Prospects' (2008) European Energy and Environmental Law Review 126
A Johnston, '‘Spillovers’ from EU Law into National Law: (Un)intended Consequences for Private Law Relationships' in Dorota Leczykiewicz and Stephen Weatherill (eds), The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships (Hart Publishing 2012)
News
Australia Alumni Events 2013
Oxford Faculty of Law’s Angus Johnston, Tutorial Fellow in Law at University College, gave talks in Melbourne (12 March) and Sydney (15 March) to alumni on “The EU's Emissions Trading System: Some Lessons and Prospects” [more…]
Interests
Teaching: Competition Law; European Business Regulation; Comparative Private Law
Research: EU Law, Energy Law, Competition Law, Tort Law, Comparative Law
Other details
Correspondence address:
University College
Oxford OX1 4BH
other affiliation(s):
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
