NREELR Members

Natural Resources Energy and Environmental Law Research Members

Nigel Bankes, Professor of Law and Chair of Natural Resources Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests: Regulatory ownership and liability issues in carbon capture and storage; Aboriginal Law, especially resources law; Circumpolar law; energy law, international environmental law, water law, international water resources law, oil and gas law (regulation and private law); resources law
• Publications

Shaun Fluker, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests: The use of legal process by public interest environmental groups to preserve wilderness, implementing environmental principles in law, and public participation in natural resources and environmental decision-making
• Publications

Allan Ingelson, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests: Regulation of the Canadian and international energy and mining sectors
• Publications

Arlene Kwasniak, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests: Legal instruments for protection of wetlands and conservation lands; environmental law; natural resources law; water la; municipal law and policy
• Publications

Alastair R. Lucas, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests:  Constitutional jurisdiction over greenhouse gas emission regulation and carbon offset markets; environmental law and policy; comparative energy and environmental law; international environmental law; oil and gas and energy law
• Publications

Owen Saunders, Executive Director, Canadian Institute of Resources Law and Adjunct Professor Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests: trade law, electricity deregulation, domestic and transboundary water law and policy, problems associated with resource development and federalism.
• His publications include work on such topics as The Uruguay Round of GATT and Economic Regionalism; NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation; The Mexico Factor in North American Free Trade; Legal Aspects of International Diversions; Energy, Natural Resources and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement; and Interjurisdictional Issues in Canadian Water Management.

Nickie Vlavianos, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

• Research interests: public participation in energy, natural resources and environmental decision making; theories of environmental liability, including the polluter pays principle; liability regimes for the clean up of environmental damage; the role of human rights law in natural resources development; the constitutional jurisdiction of administrative tribunals; the role of municipalities in natural resources and renewable energy development; the legal and regulatory framework for oil and gas, including oil sands, development in Alberta; and the role and mandate of Canada’s National Energy Board
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