A Review of Energy Law Education in the Uk
| DOI | 10.1093/jwelb/jww025 |
| Date | 03 October 2016 |
| Pages | 346-356 |
| Year | 2016 |
| Published By | Oxford University Press |
A review of energy law education in the UK
Raphael J. Heffron*, Peter Roberts**, Peter Cameron*** and
Angus Johnston****
ABSTRACT
This article focuses on reviewing energy law education in the UK. For such a fast-growi ng discipline
it is important to reflect on the features that give cohesiveness to its curriculum development: how
it is taught; who is teaching it and where it is being taught; and what content is given to the curricu-
lum offered? Is it, for example, national in focus or international, or both? A recent review on the
state of energy law education in the US demonstrates the scale and ambition of energy law educa-
tion in that country. This article complements that exercise by providing a review of energy law edu-
cation in the UK as at 2016. By comparing and contrasting the two approaches, we can glean some
distinctive features of the UK approach. More research is needed on energy law education but from
this article it is clear that energy law has taken a foothold in legal education in the UK.
1. INTRODUCTION
Energy law is one of the fastest growing areas in legal practice and in academia. There are many reasons for
this and an exploration of them forms part of the motivation for this article. For such a fast-growing discip-
line, it is also important to reflect on the features that give cohesiveness to its curriculum development: how
it is taught; who is teaching it and where it is being taught; and what content is given to the curriculum
offered? Is it, for example, national in focus or international, or both? A recent review on the state of energy
law education in the USA, ‘Energy Law Education in the U.S.: An Overview and Recommendations’
1
(the
US Review), demonstrates the scale and ambition of energy law education in that country. This article com-
plements that exercise by providing a review of energy law education in the UK as at 2016. By comparing
and contrasting the two approaches, we can glean some distinctive features of the UK approach.
In the USA, there exists an ‘Energy Bar Association’
2
that is comprised of professionals and academics;
however, no comparable association exists in the UK. More recently, in 2015, academics and practitioners
formed the ‘UK Energy Law and Policy Association’,
3
which aims to bridge the gap between energy law
* Raphael J. Heffron is Jean Monnet Chair in Energy & Natural Resources Law & Policy at the Energy and Natural Resources Law Institute,
Queen Mary University of London, UK. Email: r.heffron@qmul.ac.uk
** Peter Roberts, Partner at Orrick LLP and active Oil and Gas Law Practitioner. Email: proberts@orrick.com
*** Peter Cameron is Professor of International Energy Law & Policy and Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and
Policy, University of Dundee, UK. Email: p.d.cameron@dundee.ac.uk
**** Angus Johnston, Professor of Law and Hoffmann Fellow in Law, University College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK. Email:
angus.johnston@law.ox.ac.uk
1 US Energy Bar Association (Donna Attanasio, Committee Chair), ‘Energy Law Education in the U.S.: An Overview and
Recommendations’ (2015) 36 Energy Law Journal, 217–60.
2 US Energy Bar Association (EBA) <http://www.eba-net.org/>accessed 5 September 2016.
3 UK Energy Law and Policy Association <http://www.energylaw.org.uk/>accessed 5 September 2016.
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CThe Authors 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the AIPN. All rights reserved.
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Journal of World Energy Law and Business, 2016, 9, 346–356
doi: 10.1093/jwelb/jww025
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