June Highlights
Elias Medina, a rising 3L LSU Law student, was awarded a scholarship by the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation. This is the second scholarship that he has received from a mineral law organization.
Professor Keith Hall represented LSU at the 40th Annual Energy and Mineral Law Annual Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as at the organization’s Board of Trustees meeting, June 9-11, 2019.
Professor Keith Hall and his wife hosted a dinner at their home for a delegation of South Koreans who are visiting the United States on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department to study natural gas issues. Professor Nicholas Bryner also attended the dinner, which was held on June 23, 2019.
Professor Hall will teach at a 2-day oil and gas symposium June 27-28 in Georgetown, Guyana.
May Highlights
Four students received the Graduate Certificate in Energy Law & Policy at the 2019 LSU Law Commencement held on May 24, 2019. They are:
- Gregory Barro, Jr.
- Jacob Cunningham
- Kevin Ellis
- Marina Wilson
Professor John Costonis’s article “The BP MDL and Its Aftermath: Whither OPA’s Displacement Jurisprudence?” was published in the 93 Tulane Law Review 511 (2019).
Elias Medina, a rising 3L LSU Law student, was awarded a scholarship by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.
Professor Keith Hall represented LSU at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators’ annual International Petroleum Summit in Houston on May 22-23, 2019.
Professor Hall spoke on the subject of Brent crude at an international petroleum scholars workshop on May 24 in Houston.
Professor Nicholas Bryner attended the 19th Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers held May 29-31 in Missoula, Montana.
April Highlights
Professor Keith Hall served as a panelist that examined the issue of “Dutch Disease and the Resource Curse” at the International Oil, Gas and Mining Conference on April 10, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Professor Hall recently served on a panel that discussed coastal and land loss litigation at the LSU Center for Energy Study’s annual oil and gas symposium on April 17, 2019 in Baton Rouge.
March Highlights
Professor Keith Hall spoke on the subject of implied covenants in oil and gas leases at a conference hosted by the University of Texas on March 28, 2019 in Houston.
The Liskow & Lewis Visiting Professorship in Energy Law Lecture was held on Wednesday, March 13th at 4:00 in the Robinson Courtroom. This year’s visiting professor was Monika Ehrman, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center at The University of Oklahoma’s College of Law, who spoke on the topic “Energy as a Fundamental Human Right.” A reception was held in the student lounge following Professor Ehrman’s lecture.
The 66th Mineral Law Institute was held March 14th and 15th at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Baton Rouge.
