The Burlington Resources Professorship was established in 2007 by The Burlington Resources Foundation. This professorship in environmental law will help support the Law Center’s efforts in providing timely seminars on the environment. The professorship was championed by 1977 Law Center graduate Frederick J. Plaeger II, vice president and general counsel at Burlington. Houston-based Burlington Resources, Inc. was one of the world’s largest oil and gas exploration and production companies and the gift was completed just prior to the company being acquired by ConocoPhillips, Inc. in early 2006. Burlington Resources, Inc. began operating in 1864 when President Abraham Lincoln granted land and rights-of-way to the Northern Pacific Railway Company, predecessor to Burlington Northern Railway Company. Oil was discovered on Burlington Northern Land in 1951 in North Dakota and over the years the company, which would become Burlington Resources, Inc., gained an increasing Louisiana presence culminating with the 1997 merger with Louisiana Land and Exploration Company.
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