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New Orleans Bar Association's Oil & Gas Section : Co-Chair

Louisiana Mineral Law Institute : Director

Louisiana State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section : Vice Chair

Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation : Member, Board of Trustees

 Oil & Gas Committee of the ABA's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources : Program Chair

Carbon Capture and Storage: Models for Compensating Non-consenting Landowners

Reconciling Property Rights with Carbon Capture and Storage

Decommissioning of Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities in the United States

An International Comparison of the Operatorship Provisions Contained in Model Form Oil & Gas Joint Operating Agreements

Ruminations on the Continuing Evolution of Trespass Law in the Context of Mineral Development

The Law of Oil and Gas, 10th, Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)

International Petroleum Transactions

The Regulation of Decommissioning, Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry: From Obligation to Opportunities (Energy and Environmental Law and Policy Series, 38)

Hydraulic Fracturing: A Guide to Environmental and Real Property Issues

Energy Law & Mineral Rights

Keith B. Hall is the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law, and John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 3 and 4. He is also Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center and Director of the Mineral Law Institute. He teaches Mineral Rights, International Petroleum Transactions, Energy Law & Regulation, and Civil Law Property.  His publications have focused on oil and gas leases, pooling and unitization, hydraulic fracturing, induced seismicity, and the management of produced water.  He is co-author of three books—a national oil and gas casebook that is used in law schools, a book on legal issues relating to hydraulic fracturing that is published by the American Bar Association, and the leading textbook on international petroleum law and transactions.  He is a frequent speaker at national and international oil and gas, energy, and environmental law conferences, and is one of the editors on a book on international oil and gas decommissioning regulations.  In addition to teaching at LSU, he has taught energy law classes as a visiting professor at Baku State University in Azerbaijan, as a Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola School of Law (New Orleans). Before joining the LSU Law Center’s faculty, he was a member of the firm Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann in New Orleans, where he practiced law for 16 years, with a focus on oil and gas litigation and transactions, environmental law, and toxic tort litigation.

Professor Hall is Editor-in-Chief of the Institute for Energy Law’s Oil & Gas E-Report, and he serves as a member of the Trustees Council of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation), the Board of Trustees of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, and the Educational Advisory Board of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He is a former Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and former Chair of the Oil & Gas Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. He serves on the Louisiana Law Institute’s Water Law Committee and is a registered professional engineer (license status, inactive).

Mineral Rights

Energy Law

Environmental Law

Oil and Gas

LSU Faculty Profile

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Drafting and Negotiating Instruments to Acquire Pore Space Rights for CCS,

Recent Developments in Louisiana Oil & Gas Law,

LSU Law Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Director of the LSU John P. Laborde Energy Center, Director of the LSU Mineral Law Institute, and Professor of Law

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