Currently a member of the COAST Law Centre, working on the NorthCarb project: "The North Sea Carbon Basin: Governance for transporting, storing, and building Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) infrastructure in the Climate Transition."

With strong interest in Climate, Energy, and Environmental law; especially in the utilisation of the law and new technologies in the energy sector to tackle climate change.

Conference lecture

• Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui; Rosa Manzo; Michael James Thomas McElhinney et al. (2026). Early Career Researchers Summer School: Law, Society & The Environment. (external link)
• Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui; Michael James Thomas McElhinney; Rosa Manzo et al. (2026). Summer School Governance Frameworks for the Nordic Energy Transition at Sea (GNTS). (external link)

Academic article

• Michael James Thomas McElhinney; Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (2026). Case Note: Assessing Scope 3 GHG Emissions in Oil and Gas Projects: Advisory Opinion of the EFTA Court in Norway v. Greenpeace (21 May 2025). (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

M.J.T. McElhinney; I. Herrera Anchustegui (2025) "Case Note: Assessing Scope 3 GHG Emissions in Oil and Gas Projects: Advisory Opinion of the EFTA Court in Norway v. Greenpeace (21 May 2025)"
(OGEL, ISSN 1875-418X) September 2025, www.ogel.org