
Lucila de AlmeidaEurpepan University Institute · Florence School of Regulation
Lucila de Almeida
PhD in Law, European University Institute
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Introduction
Lucila de Almeida is the Abreu Chair of ESG Impact and Coordinator of the NOVA Green Lab at NOVA School of Law. She is Part-time Professor at the European University Institute. Her fields of research are energy, environmental and climate law.
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November 2018 - present
Education
September 2013 - May 2017
September 2012 - August 2013
July 2009 - August 2011
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Publications (48)
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of April 2024 and the end of June 2024. Out of a total of 231 judgments decided in this period, 26 had a contract law dimension.
Reflexive environmental law (REL) techniques create potential for reflexivity by regulated companies. This reflexivity is fundamental to overcoming various regulatory hurdles posed by complex and dynamic sustainability challenges, such as plastics circularity. However, even when European Union (EU) environmental legislation incorporates REL techniq...
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of January 2024 and the end of March 2024. Out of a total of 123 judgments decided in this period, 37 had a contract law dimension.
Reflexive environmental law (REL) enables an understanding of how law builds potential for private company reflexivity. Reflexivity helps to avoid lock-in, and enhances learning and self-organization to resolve complex sustainability challenges. Thus far, REL theory has excluded traditional command-and-control regulation as a form of REL. This limi...
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of July 2023 and the end of December 2023. Out of a total of 220 judgments decided in this period, 57 had a contract law dimension.
To deliver the Green Transition, the European Commission is just asking consumers to make green choices when they want. At the same time, EU legislative measures force consumers to take responsibility by restricting their freedom of making environmentally unsustainable choices. This mismatch is undesirable. The article first shows the existence of...
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of April 2023 and the end of June 2023. Out of a total of 155 judgments decided in this period, 55 had a contract law dimension.
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of January 2023 and the end of March 2023. Out of a total of 265 judgments decided in this period, 57 had a contract law dimension.
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of July 2022 and the end of December 2022. Out of a total of 265 judgments decided in this period, 57 had a contract law dimension.
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of January 2022 and the end of June 2022. Out of a total of 270 judgments decided in this period, 52 had a contract law dimension.
An important goal of EU energy policy is to ensure energy justice during the green transition. The Commission considers the functioning and competitiveness of the retail energy market for households to be proxies for justice and consumer welfare. The European Barriers in Retail Energy Market Project (the EB Project) is instrumental in assessing and...
This article provides an overview of the most relevant cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of June 2021 and the end of December 2021. Out of a total of 329 judgments decided in this period, 55 had a contract law dimension.
What does it mean to be an inclusive, diverse, decolonized and intersectional university research centre specialized in sustainability governance? What are the biases that we have when researching and teaching about sustainability governance? How do we create safe spaces to reflect on these biases and experiences of discrimination at the Wageningen...
This article provides an overview of cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of January 2021 and the end of May 2021.
The threat of climate change, significant growth in the number of prosumers and local energy generation, and the development of new technologies enabling new business models are all contributing to rapid change in the electricity sector. Within this context, peer-to-peer (P2P) trading and energy community (EC) are new, emerging modes of transacting...
This article provides an overview of cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning contract law. The present issue covers the period between the beginning of July 2020 and the end of December 2020.
This chapter introduces this edited book by shedding light on its normative and conceptual framework, as well as its contribution to the field as collection of interconnected works on how the law does and/or should play a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption.
This chapter aims to look forward to a future research agenda for sustainable consumption, law and development by way of conclusion. While it is for the readers to retrieve the lessons addressed by each contribution in this edited book, for us it is compelling to close this journey by looking forward. Therefore, we suggest and seek for a future res...
This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how. Bringing together legal scholars from the Global South and the Global North, it examines these questions in the context of national, transnational and international law, within single and plural legal systems, and...
A theory is grand when it is bold enough to embody ‘ the sociological imagination ’. Among theorists committed to the epistemology of science, grand theorists that embody the sociological imagination are those who seek big visions in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world. It is the quality of all that is intellectually...
This book is written in honour of Hans-W. Micklitz for his jubilee 70th birthday and the closure of his twelve-year term as the Chair for Economic Law at the European University Institute (EUI). Hans-W. Micklitz has gained international recognition for dedicating his extensive and fruitful career to diverse areas of law: European Economic Law, Euro...
This chapter argues that the engagement of the EU with international organizations in the field of private law is not confined to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) only. Below the radar of international conventions, formalized agreements, and institutions with legal authority, there has been institutional and normative cooper...
The Russian-Ukraine gas supply crisis in January 2009 brought an unprecedented disruption for the gas supply in Europe. As a response, the SoS Regulation put in place an ambitious plan to mitigate not only the risks of another gas supply crisis, but also to protect a defined group of customers in case of unavoidable gas shortage – households, small...
Opening markets in network industries to competition is challenging. This chapter compares how such challenges have been addressed by the two most remarkable trade liberalization regimes—the internal market project of the European Union (EU) and the trade agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The chapter proposes a threefold framework t...
Is there such a thing as European private law, a set of rules of EU law
distinguished by the binary opposition public and private law? This article aims to
shed light on the debate over the rise and the fall of the classic concept of private
law and how the legal consciousness of the latter enhanced the legal awareness of
European private law. Phil...
The Russian-Ukraine gas supply crisis in January 2009 brought an unprecedented disruption for the gas supply in Europe. As a response, the SoS Regulation put in place an ambitious plan to mitigate not only the risks of another gas supply crisis, but also to protect a defined group of customers in case of unavoidable gas shortage – households, small...
This chapter challenges the use of total welfare as the axiological assumption adopted by economically-informed legal scholarship in the field of electricity. To do so, it departures from the assumption that the efficiency hypotheses can be grounded in two different economic rationales: the traditional one based on total welfare; and an alternative...
The second post on the topic of February advanced the conceptual framework of European private energy law outlined in the first post. This third post takes us one more step forward in the discussion, presenting a final set of considerations about the importance of European private energy law, this time in the context of the emerging future of energ...
The first post on the topic of February shed a bright-and much needed-light on the unexplored field of European private energy law. This was, however, a brief introduction, and this and subsequent posts will extend the discussion considerably.
The 'Topic of the Month' in February introduces the unusual and rather underexplored concept of European private energy law. It will do so in three blog posts over several weeks. This first will explain what European private energy law is, and why it matters, sharpening as it does our understanding of the role of public and private law in market en...
The intertwined relationship between law and the dynamic transformation of network industries in the fields of energy (electricity, gas, oil), communication (telephone, internet) and transportation (railway, aviation) is commonly observed from two different perspectives and modulations. One is horizontal and does not allow for pluralism in law; the...
This thesis analyses the impact of the European Integration Project on private law. While the impact of EU law on private law throughout negative integration created European Private Meta-law, and throughout positive integration evolved to European Private law, this thesis claims that EU law has recently moved a step further in regulated markets by...
How have contracts been regulated in the energy sector since the EU has pursued the creation of integrated and competitive gas and electricity markets in the late 1990s? Has the EU multilevel systems of law cast its net toward private ordering, and then reshaped the parties’ free and informed consent by restricting the default rules domain? To answ...
The aim of the paper, based on empirical research in Brazil, is to investigate how supply chains have evolved over time, what factors have driven this evolution and also how a specific set of contractual practices along these chains is linked to access to international markets. The two selected case studies in the field of agriculture and aeronauti...
This paper aims to determine how the compliance with a Transnational Private Regulation (TPR) could foster system innovations. In order to answer this question, it purports to analyse whether and how the commitment to Bonsucro Standards could affect the Brazilian sugarcane supply chain by creating windows of opportunity for system innovations.
A presente dissertação analisará a persistente dinâmica da Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras – no arranjo institucional brasileiro. O objetivo é identificar se essa permanência foi acompanhada de mudanças na estrutura macro e microjurídica da empresa estatal que promoveram a sua adaptação às alterações da relação Estado e mercado promovidas por...