EENRSLP Faculty Highlights 2019-20

Jim Bradbury James Bradbury

byrnes-william-2017William Byrnes

  • Published Federal Taxation of Oil & Gas Transactions (2018) (with Robert Polevoi), available here.
  • Published "Supplement (Release 82)," in William Byrnes and Robert Polevoi, Federal Taxation of Oil and Gas Transactions (Matthew Bender, December 2019).
  • Published "Supplement (Release 81)," in William Byrnes and Robert Polevoi, Federal Taxation of Oil and Gas Transactions (Matthew Bender, June 2019).

vanessa-casado-perez-4Vanessa Casado Pérez

  • Published “Liquid Business,” in the Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming 2020), available here.
  • Published “Specialization Trend: Water Courts,” in Environmental Law (2019) (with Carlos Gómez Ligüerre), available here.

_ NRS Professor Gabriel Eckstein (2)-2-2Gabriel Eckstein

  • Published “The Status of the UN Watercourses Convention: Does it Still Hold Water?” International Journal of Water Resources Development, Vol. 36(2-3) pp. 429-461 (2020), available here.
  • Published “Groundwater management in the borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The beauty of the unknown, the negligence of the present, and the way forward”, Water Resources Research (2020) (co-authored with Dr. Rosario Sanchez, Texas Water Resources Institute), available here.
  • Published “The Value and Ethic of Water Pricing,” Course Material for State Bar of Texas: 16th Annual Changing Face of Water Law Course (forthcoming 2020) (co-authored with Jessica Foster - TAMU Law ’15).
  • Presented “The Value and Ethic of Water Pricing” at the 2020 State Bar Changing Face of Water Law Conference, San Antonio, TX, February 19-21, 2020.
  • Presented “The Status of International Water Law – Research and Practice” at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands, February 14, 2019.
  • Presented “Drugs on Tap: Managing Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Our Nation’s Waters” for the Dallas Bar Association Environmental Law Section, Dallas, TX, January 23, 2020.
  • Presented  “Drugs on Tap: Managing Pharmaceuticals in Our Nation’s Waters” at the Pharmaceutical Innovation, Patent Protection and Regulatory Exclusivities Symposium, Texas A&M Journal of Property Law and the Texas A&M Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Fort Worth, TX, October 25, 2019
  • Keynote presentation on “Regulating What We Can’t See: International Law and Transboundary Aquifers” at the 46th Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Malaga, Spain, September 24, 2019.
  • Co-organized workshop on “Future of Transboundary Aquifers: Research, Management, and Policy Directions”, Commission on Transboundary Aquifers, 46th Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Malaga, Spain, September 21, 2019.
  • Presented “Pharmaceuticals Pollution in our Freshwater Systems” on the panel Towards the 9th World Water Forum: Why is Water Quality such a Crucial Component in the Water Security Equation? at the 2019 Korea International Water Week, Daegu, South Korea, September 6, 2019.
  • Keynote presentation on “Smart Water Management for Smart Cities” at the 2019 Korea International Water Industry Conference, Republic of Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Seoul, South Korea, September 3, 2019.

Guillermo-GarciaGuillermo Garcia Sanchez

  • Published "The Footprint of the Chinese Petro-Dragon: The Future of Investment Law in Transboundary Resources," Tulane Law Review, Vol. 94.2 (Spring 2020), available here.
  • Moderated a panel on "Drawing from Real-Life Examples and Considering Whether the ADR Field’s Navigational Goals Should Change" for Texas A&M University School of Law, Dispute Resolution Annual Symposium, ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era, March 20, 2020, Fort Worth, Texas.
  • Organized and presented on the panel "The Hydrocarbon Industry's Approach to Political and Regulatory Risk" at Texas A&M University School of Law, 11th Annual Energy Law Symposium, Energy Law Currents: Reconciling Risk and Return, February 27-28, 2020, Fort Worth, Texas.
  • Presented a draft of an article titled "When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in America" at UIC John Marshall Law School, International Courts and Tribunals Works-in-progress Conference, American Society of International Law, February 7, 2020, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Presented a draft of an article titled "The Other Secret Deals with Mexico: The Influence of Bureaucratic Networks in U.S.-Mexico Relations" at Cornell School of Law, Junior International Law Scholars Association Annual Meeting, January 9-10, 2020.
  • Presented a draft of an article titled "When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in America: Mediating the Clash of Rights" at the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law, AALS DR Section work-in-progress conference, October 3-5, 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada.

ku_charlotte1 (1)Charlotte Ku

  • Awarded the Global Legal Educator Award at the Global Legal Skills Conference in Costa Rica; read more.

lucas_gary1 (1)Gary Lucas

  • Published “Betting on Climate Policy: Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming,” in U.C. Davis Law Review (2019) (with Felix Mormann), available here.

thomas-mitchellThomas Mitchell

  • Published “African-Americans’ Quest for Full Citizenship Undermined by Recurring Property Ownership Barriers,” in Race, Property, and Debt (Lloyd ed., 2018).
  • Published “Historic Partition Law Reform: A Game Changer for Heirs’ Property Owners,” in Heirs’ property and land fractionation: fostering stable ownership to prevent land loss and abandonment (U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 2019), available here.
  • Published “The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act Would Improve Texas Partition Law for Families,” in the State Bar of Texas’s Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Reporter (2019).

felix-mormann-0890w-5Felix Mormann

  • Published “Betting on Climate Policy: Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming,” in U.C. Davis Law Review (2019) (with Gary Lucas), available here.
  • Presented “Solar Energy Development on Public Lands” at the Public Lands and Energy Transition Conference hosted by George Washington University School of Law in Washington, DC, March 12, 2020.
  • Chaired the 11th Annual Energy Law Symposium – Energy Law Currents: Reconciling Risk and Return, at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, TX, February 27-28, 2020.
  • Presented “Automated Energy Regulation” at the Environmental Scholarship Symposium co-hosted by UCLA, UCSB, and University of Colorado in Santa Barbara, CA, August 9-10, 2019.
  • Presented “Of Markets and Subsidies – Counterintuitive Policy Trends for Clean Energy in the European Union and the United States” at University of Tuebingen, Germany, June 27, 2019.

mulvaney_tim2-3Tim Mulvaney

  • Published “The State of Exactions,” in the William & Mary Law Review (2019), available here.
  • Published “Property-as-Society,” in the Wisconsin Law Review (2018), available here.
  • Published “Non-Enforcement Takings,” in the Boston College Law Review (2018), available here.
  • Moderated the panel "Energy Law & Policy in Cross-Disciplinary Context" at the Texas A&M University School of Law 11th Annual Energy Law Symposium – Energy Law Currents: Reconciling Risk and Return, Fort Worth, TX, February 28, 2020.

harry-sullivan0bdcd0a8f6bd683ab184ff0c0040cfad-1Harry Sullivan

  • Published The Basics of Oil and Gas Confidentiality Agreements, with the Institute for Energy Law (2019).
  • Published “Natural Gas,” in International Petroleum Transactions 4th Edition (Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2019).
  • Moderated the panel "The Hydrocarbon Industry’s Approach to Political and Regulatory Risk" at the Texas A&M University School of Law 11th Annual Energy Law Symposium – Energy Law Currents: Reconciling Risk and Return, Fort Worth, TX, February 27, 2020.