Energy law is an emerging discipline in legal studies. These programs address topics relevant to energy resources, such as renewable energy and international resource trading, in an effort to inform students in the future creation of policy and law.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.