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40 J. Energy & Nat. Resources L. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jenrl40 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2022 Vol 40, No 1, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2022.2019496 Editorial The 40th anniversary of the Journal: observing and analysing the evolution of energy and natural resources law This issue of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law marks the start of its 40th year of publication. From an initial readership consisting primarily of several hundred members of the then newly established Section on Energy and Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association (IBA), today's Journal has grown and matured into a publication that is ranked among the most prestigious jour- nals of its kind in the energy and natural resources fields. Today, not only is the Journal read by the members of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL), but its contents are annually researched and used by tens of thousands of individuals across the globe via its website. In short, the growth in usage of the Journal's contents has been nothing short of meteoric. And the growth in readership and the strength of content continues on a year-on-year basis. To a large degree, the Journal's success can be attributed to the solid foundation that was explained in the first editorial published in January 1983. In that piece founding editor Terence Daintith,1 then Professor of Public Law at the University of Dundee, identified several 'purposes and characteristics' that the Journal would be based on and that continue to guide the Journal today. Daintith pointed out that 'Energy and natural resources law has special features which, in our view, demand a rather particular kind of periodical'. In this regard, he pointed to three concepts: (1) this branch of law cuts across many legal categories such as public law, private law, contract, tort and so on; (2) it is largely a 'transnational phenomenon' where 'much ofthe law [is] developed in international frameworks or in transnational contracts for energy or resource devel- opment'; and (3) this area ofthe law 'has to a remarkable degree been built up, and is still being developed and advanced, by the efforts of practicing lawyers in creating new legal instruments to meet the challenges of the resources industries'.2 1 Terence Daintith has enjoyed a long and illustrious career, having served as a member of law faculties stretching from the UK to Australia, the United States and beyond. His primary fields of research and writing have been in oil and gas law and regulation. He is also an acclaimed author, having co-edited a multi-volume set on United Kingdom Oil and Gas Law and Finders Keepers? How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry. He remains active today working from his home base in the United Kingdom. 2 Terence Daintith, 'The Journal' (1983) 1(1) Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 1. © 2022 International Bar Association oR&aoutledge Taylor &francis Group