Professor Keith Hall with 23 LSU Law students and Energy Law Research Associate Portia Oduro (’23) at the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Fall Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky in October.
Professor Keith Hall was in high demand in 2024, traveling to nearly a dozen states and our nation’s capital to present or participate at leading energy law conferences and symposia.
Hall holds the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law at LSU Law, and he also serves as director of both the Energy Law Center and Mineral Law Institute at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Along with presenting extensively across Louisiana and Texas, Hall’s scholarship has taken him to Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New Mexico, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Wyoming since the start of the year.
Hall often offers his students the opportunity to travel with him to major energy law events so they can also benefit from the programming and networking opportunities. For example, in October, he was accompanied by 23 LSU Law students and Energy Law Research Associate Portia Oduro—who earned her LLM at LSU Law in 2023—at the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Fall Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky.
“This was a great experience for our LSU Law students who got to meet energy law attorneys and hear some good presentations at this Energy & Mineral Law Foundation program,” said Hall, who has been an LSU Law faculty member since 2012. “Thanks to the donors to LSU’s John P. Laborde Energy Law Center for making it possible for us to send students to conferences.”
Among his presentations over the past year, Hall:
- Was accompanied by three LSU Law students—Patrick Raymond, Isabelle Rowan, and Parker Smith—at the Institute for Energy Law’s 75th Annual Energy Law Conference in Houston, Texas in February.
- Presented “Drafting and Negotiating Instruments to Acquire Pore Space Rights for CCS” at the 3rd Annual U.S. Oil and Gas and Renewable Energy Law Seminar in Houston, Texas in February. The seminar was organized by the Foundation for National Resources & Energy Law and was held in conjunction with the 2024 North American Petroleum Exposition that is held each year by the American Association of Professional Landmen.
- Served as a member of a three-person panel, “The Link Between Induced Seismicity and Produced Water,” at a Produced Water Symposium hosted by the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal at Oklahoma University Law School in Norman, Oklahoma in March.
- Presented on “Local Government Regulation of CCUS” at the Foundation for Natural Resources & Energy Law’s Special Institute on Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage in Houston, Texas in March.
- Participated in a panel discussion of Louisiana’s Orphan Well Program at the Professional Landmen Association of New Orleans’ Annual Executive Night and Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana in April.
- Presented “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage” to the Louisiana State Mineral & Energy Board and answered questions from Board members in June.
- Presented on “Carbon Capture and Pore Space Issues” at the University of Texas’ 50th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Institute in Houston, Texas in April.
- Spoke on “Extraction of Lithium from Brine—Exploration Rights and Other Legal Issues” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Professional Landmen in Boston, Massachusetts in June.
- Attended the annual meeting of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Board of Trustees on in Savannah, Georgia in June.
- Participated in a “Pore Space Valuation Workshop” in support of a research project on carbon capture and storage held in Laramie, Wyoming in June.
- Represented LSU Law at the annual Trustees Council Meeting of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (FNREL) in Santa Fe, New Mexico in July. He also attended FNREL’s 70th Institute, the organization’s premiere annual conference, while in New Mexico.
- Delivered two presentations at the International Oil & Gas Law, Contracts & Negotiations Short Course in Houston, Texas in late September.
- He also presented on “Obtaining Pore Space Rights for Carbon Capture and Storage” at the 42nd Annual Advanced Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Course in Houston in September.
- Presented on “Contracting for Pore Space Rights for Carbon Capture and Storage” at the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Fall Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky in October.
- Presented “The Public Policy Rationale for Carbon Capture and Storage” at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. in October.
- Attended the first day of the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission’s Annual Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado in October.
- Spoke on “Extraction of Lithium from Brine — Exploration Rights and Other Legal Issues” at the Land Institute conference held in Morgantown, West Virginia in November. The conference was co-hosted at West Virginia University Law School by the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation and the Association of Professional Landmen.
- Moderated and served on a panel addressing “Carbon Capture & Storage – Property, Contracts, & Economics” at the U.S. Association of Energy Economists’ 41st Annual North American Conference in November on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
