Professor Owen L Anderson
Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters)
University of Texas, United States
Overview
Professor Owen L Anderson is a Distinguished Oil and Gas Scholar at the University of Texas School of Law, Co-Academic Director of the KBH (Kay Bailey Hutchison) Center for Energy Law and Business at the University of Texas, and is the Eugene Kuntz Chair in Oil, Gas, and Natural Resources Emeritus and George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Professor Anderson served as an international legal advisor for petroleum issues in the Commercial Law Development Program of the US Department of Commerce and has lectured at numerous universities and venues throughout the United States and in over 25 countries on six continents. He has authored or co-authored over 100 articles, several books, and treatises on domestic and global petroleum law and water law, including International Petroleum Law and Transactions (RMMLF 2020), A Students Guide to Estates in Land and Future Interests (Carolina Acad. 2020), Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law (West Acad. 8th ed. 2022 and seven prior editions), Oil and Gas Law and Taxation (West Acad. Hornbook 2017), and the supplements to Kuntz on Oil and Gas Law (Lexis Nexis 1995 – Present). Until 2015, he was the author of the prior appropriation materials in the treatise Water and Water Rights.
He is Editor in Chief of the Texas Title Standards, a lifetime Honorary Trustee of the Foundation for Energy and Natural Resources Law, a trustee of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Energy Law, a member of the Legal Committee of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, and a member and former Vice President of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN), form and style editor of AIEN model contracts, and founding member of the Editorial Board of the AIEN-Oxford University Journal of World Energy Law and Business. He is a faculty advisor to the Texas Journal of Oil and Gas Law and the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources and Energy Journal (ONE J). He is a life member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a member of the American Law Institute, a member of the Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota bars, and a consultant and arbitrator on oil and gas law and policy.