Speakers
Scot Anderson
Office Managing Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
Scot Anderson is the Office Managing Partner in the Denver of Womble Bond Dickinson. Decades of work in oil, gas, and mining gives Scot a deep understanding of the extractives industries and their role in the energy transition. Scot advises clients on commercial transactions and project development for the development of natural resources. Scot regularly works on matters throughout the Americas, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. He is also working on the development of natural resources in outer space and the deep sea.
Scot is a past president of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law and is an honorary lecturer at the University of Dundee Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy.
Colleen Baker
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and the Zinke Chair in Energy Management, University of Oklahoma
Colleen Baker is an expert in banking and financial institutions law and regulation, with extensive knowledge of over-the-counter derivatives, clearing, the Dodd-Frank Act, and bankruptcy, in addition to being a mediator and arbitrator. Previously, she spent time at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Business, the University of Notre Dame Law School, and Villanova University Law School.
She has consulted for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and for The Volcker Alliance. Prior to academia, Baker worked as a legal professional and as an information technology associate. She is a member of the State Bars of New York and Texas.
Baker’s presentation will focus on some of her recently published papers analyzing the current trends and fragilities of the metals derivatives markets and how this impacts the clean energy transition within the United States.
Keith Hall
Professor, LSU Law
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.
Christina Jovanovic
Attorney, Salt River Project
Christina Jovanovic is an attorney at the Salt River Project (SRP) located in Tempe, Arizona. The Salt River Project consists of a federal reclamation project and a power district that provides water and power to the Phoenix metropolitan area. Her current practice covers federal permitting compliance (National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, and Endangered Species Act) and water law. Prior to going in-house at SRP, Christina’s practice focused on mining law.
At the symposium, Jovanovic will introduce the four Rs for securing critical mineral supplies: resupply, recycle, reduce/replace, and retreat (sort of). Discussion of each R will propose strategies for implementation to secure a stable and resilient supply of critical minerals to enable the renewable energy transition.
Madeleine Lewis
University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources
Madeleine Lewis is a Wyoming and Montana-licensed attorney, legal scholar, and lecturer at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER). Her research focuses on energy law and policy, including critical minerals and rare earth elements, carbon capture and sequestration, nuclear energy, and energy stakeholder engagement.
Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology from Carleton College, a master’s degree in Environment and Natural Resources from the University of Wyoming, and a juris doctorate from the University of Wyoming. Before joining SER, Lewis served clients on energy-related issues as an attorney for the law firm of Crowley Fleck PLLP and also served as a federal district court clerk.
At the symposium, she will present on “Environmental Justice in U.S. CM/REE Supply Chains and the Role of Circular Economies.”
Joseph A. Schremmer
Associate Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Director, Energy Center
Joseph A. Schremmer is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and Director of the Oil, Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center (ONE C). He teaches courses in oil and gas, energy, and natural resources law, as well as first-year property. He is the sole revision and update author of Kuntz on Oil and Gas Law, a co-author of Oil and Gas Law: Cases and Materials (11th ed. Foundation Press) and has published extensively in the law journals on topics such as correlative rights, waste, property in pore space, subsurface trespass, and split estates.
Before joining OU Law, Schremmer was the Judge Leon Karelitz Oil & Gas Law Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Before that, he practiced law in Wichita, Kansas for six years and was a partner with Depew Gillen Rathbun & McInteer, LC. His practice covered most aspects of upstream oil and gas production, including title examination, transactional work, practice before the Kansas Corporation Commission, and civil litigation. He was the president of the Oil, Gas, and Minerals Section of the Kansas Bar Association and was recognized multiple times as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers.
