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About the IEL

For more than five decades, The Center for American and International Law has been committed to continuing education for professionals in the energy industry.

The very first educational program of the then Southwestern Legal Foundation was an Institute on Oil and Gas Law and Taxation, offered in 1949 (and every year since). Other energy law programs and activities followed, leading to the creation in 1959 of the International Oil and Gas Educational Center as a division of the Foundation.

Renamed the Institute for Energy Law (IEL) in 2001, the IEL has, through its educational programs, scholarly publications and membership activities, served many thousands of energy lawyers and other professionals as an important educational forum in the energy industry.

The energy industry is evolving, and so is the Institute for Energy Law. Historically focused on the oil and gas industry, the organization's new name reflects its expanding scope to serve not only oil and gas lawyers but lawyers and professionals in all other areas of domestic and international energy law as well.

Please join us and help guide this evolution.

Educational Programs

The work of the IEL is done primarily through its Advisory Board, and its committees. The Advisory Board is comprised of representatives designated by IEL Members.

The Advisory Board meets each February on the day before the annual Oil and Gas Law Conference, following business with pleasure in the form of its annual Advisory Board reception and dinner that evening.

Advisory Board committees meet at least twice a year. In addition to the Executive Committee, the current practice committees of the Advisory Board are:

Publications

Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference
The Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference is one of the most distinguished educational forums in the United States for the study of contemporary issues in oil and gas law. Both its faculty and its attendees each year include leading oil and gas practitioners from industry, private practice, and government. First held in 1949, this Conference is the oldest continuing legal education program - in any field – in the United States.

The annual Conference includes a gala dinner presentation of the Institute's John Rogers Award and a special luncheon featuring the Deans of Oil and Gas Practice Lecture. The Conference is preceded every year by a day of IEL membership meetings and festivities.

The papers presented at each Conference are published annually in the Proceedings of the Institute on Oil and Gas Law by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. The Proceedings are also included in Matthew Bender's Oil and Gas Law Library on CD.

Annual Energy Litigation Conference
Designed to bridge the gap between general energy law seminars and general litigation seminars, this annual conference addresses key litigation issues in the energy industry and is co-sponsored by the Institute for Energy Law with the Center's Institute for Litigation Studies and the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.

Annual Power and Alternative Energy Law Conference
Created in 2008, the program is designed as an introduction to new energy fields for oil and gas lawyers, whose energy practice is likely to require them to deal more and more with such new legal issues, as alternative energy resources assume a larger share of our energy supply.

Law of LNG Conference
The potential for LNG continues at the forefront of the energy industry. This annual conference has become the primary annual gathering for in-house and outside counsel involved or interested in current issues throughout the LNG value chain.

International Energy Law, Contracts, and Negotiations
Created in 1994 by the IEL, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, this course is an intensive, comprehensive review of issues which may be encountered in negotiating and performing international energy contracts. The course was expanded in 2001 to include two one week segments: one addressing upstream issues and agreements and one addressing midstream issues and agreements.

Short Course on Oil and Gas Law
This annual comprehensive five-day short course covers the fundamentals of oil and gas law. It is co-sponsored by IEL with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and presented each year in October alternating between Houston, Texas, and Breckenridge, Colorado. Sessions are taught by some of the premier oil and gas law professors in the country.

Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers
This Institute is designed primarily for law professors who teach natural resources law courses. It is presented every other year in early summer at various locations. It is co-sponsored by IEL with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Mineral and Energy Law Foundation and the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources of the American Bar Association.

Webinars on hot topics in the industry are presented periodically.

Membership Activities

The Institute for Energy Law publishes a quarterly e-newsletter, The Energy Law Advisor, members-only website and LinkedIn group, an Energy Law Online Articles Index of papers published at past conferences and, with with LexisNexis Matthew Bender, the Oil and Gas Reporter (since 1952) and the Proceedings of the Institute on Oil and Gas Law (since 1949). For more information about these publications, click here.

 
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