Fundamentals of International Energy Law

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This module introduces the sector and its principal issues, contracts, and sources of dispute, with lectures on the financing of major energy projects; granting of hydrocarbons rights and related contracts; the power sector and its main contracts; public international law rules on climate change and national litigation; the legal effects of an expanded role for renewable energy in the energy transition; how disputes are typically managed including international treaty and commercial arbitration

Course leader

Peter Cameron and James Dallas

Target group

Undergraduate

Course aim

This module aims to:

Provide students with a unique understanding and experience of the contracts, regulation and dispute management techniques needed to understand the energy business from a lawyer's point of view.
Offer an overview of the principles that guide practice in energy commerce and investment.
Give students an opportunity to develop various 'practice-based' skills in a case study exercise

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