LAW543
Basic Oil & Gas
(Jefferies)
Prerequisite courses:
Prerequisite for:
Instructor(s): Professor Cameron Jefferies
Course credit: 3
Method of presentation: Lecture
METHOD OF EVALUATION
100% modified closed book final (reading list and 1-page of notes permitted)
20% optional and fail-safe mid-term in-class quiz
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides an introduction to the nature of oil and gas and the legal consequences of the ways in which oil and gas have been characterized by the courts. It considers the methods by which rights to explore for and to produce oil and gas are acquired under private leases and dispositions by the province and federal government. It will include and examination of the nature of royalties in Canadian law. The course will survey other legal instruments commonly employed in the energy industry and explore the nature of aboriginal interests in oil and gas.
SPECIAL COMMENTS
Professor Jefferies reserves the right to alter the method of evaluation and/or required texts prior to its commencement. Please contact Professor Jefferies at cameronj@ualberta.ca with any specific questions you may have related to this particular course section.
Description updated 2019-20.
REQUIRED TEXTS (IF ANY)
Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law (Percy & Jefferies, 2019).
*Reading list and other course components described in this course description are subject to alteration prior to the start of the class.