65th Annual Institute Proceedings (2019)

This over 1,000-page hardbound volume will include the 34 scholarly and practical papers, edited and cite-checked, that were delivered at the 65th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute:

• Anything New Under the Sun? When Voters Directly Regulate Energy and Mineral Development
  MARCILYNN A. BURKE, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon
• Ethical Obligations in Data Security and Data Breach Response
  DEBORAH HOWITT, Lewis, Bess, Williams & Weese P.C., Denver, Colorado
• New Subsurface Property Rights in an Old Trespass World
  DAVID E. PIERCE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas
• Roadblocks to Condemnation for Pipelines
  STEFANIE L. BURT, Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  SARAH P. STEWARD, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Spring, Texas
• Considerations for Oil and Gas Transactions Involving Private Equity-Backed Buyers and Sellers
  SARAH E. MCLEAN, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Houston, Texas
• Transboundary Energy and Infrastructure Projects—Alternatives for Gas Market Interconnection and Integration in South America
  MARISA C. BASUALDO, Total Gas Marketing Cono Sur S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Legal Hurdles and Current Prospects of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
  JEFF M. COHEN, ABRAHAM F. JOHNS, K&L Gates LLP, Washington, D.C.
• Government Participation in Natural Resources Projects: 
     Codelco and the Chilean Outlook
  DIEGO E. BRIEBA, Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, Santiago, Chile
     The Case of Ecuador
  JAIME P. ZALDUMBIDE, Perez Bustamante & Ponce, Quito, Ecuador
• Freezing Time in a Contractual Bottle: Is It Time to Reconsider Freezing Clauses in International Energy Contracts?
  RICHARD D. DEUTSCH, McGuireWoods LLP, Houston, Texas
• Stability Clauses in the Mining Sector: Argentina and Peru
  NÉSTOR JOSE RIGAMONTI, Minera Santa Cruz S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Annual Oil and Gas Law Update
  SARAH Y. DICHARRY, Jones Walker LLP, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Disbursing Oil and Gas Revenue—Who Pays Who When
  KYLE P. POLOZOLA, Kean Miller LLP, Lafayette, Louisiana
  DONALD J. ETHRIDGE, Kean Miller LLP, The Woodlands, Texas
• Statutory Liens in the Oil Patch: A State-by-State Survey
  PETER D. ROBINSON, Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., Denver, Colorado
  LYNN P. HENDRIX, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Denver, Colorado
• Statutory Pooling and the Unleased Mineral Owner
  TIMOTHY C. DOWD, Elias, Books, Brown and Nelson P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  WADE C. MANN, ANTHONY J. FORD, Crowley Fleck PLLP, Bismarck, North Dakota
• Annual Mining and Public Land Law Update
  ALEAVA R. SAYRE, Stoel Rives LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• The Barbarians Are Past the Gate: Shareholder Activism in the Resources Industries—Canadian and U.S. Trends and Tactics 
  ANELIYA S. CRAWFORD, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, New York
  FRED R. PLETCHER, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver, British Columbia
• We Have Insurance for This, Don’t We?
  KARIN S. ALDAMA, Perkins Coie LLP, Phoenix, Arizona
  MARY ROSE HUGHES, Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, D.C.
  STEPHANIE M. REGENOLD, Perkins Coie LLP, Portland, Oregon
• Ethics for In-House Counsel: Best Practices for Establishing (and Maintaining) Attorney-Client and Work-Product Privileges in an Electronic World
  TRACY K. HUNCKLER, RYAN W. THOMASON, CARLIN A. YAMACHIKA, Day Carter & Murphy LLP, Sacramento, California
• Something to Talk About? Disclosure Obligations for Public Companies in the United States and Canada that Encounter Unanticipated Obstacles During Natural Resources Projects
  ALLISON KOSTECKA, GREGORY KERWIN, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Denver, Colorado
• Corporate Compliance: Corporate Audits and Investigations
  SARAH A. STRUNK, Fennemore Craig, P.C., Phoenix, Arizona
• Mother Earth, Father Sky: Where Does Domestic Energy Dominance Fit?
  HILARY C. TOMPKINS, Hogan Lovells, Washington, D.C.
• State Trust Lands: Evolving Goals and Constraints
  JOHN W. ANDREWS, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., Salt Lake City, Utah
• Shifting Federal Policies on Public Lands: The Promise and the Peril
  ELIZABETH B. DAWSON, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C.
• Cognitive Dissonance or Harmonic Convergence? California’s Groundwater Law and the Public Trust Doctrine
  JENNIFER L. HARDER, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California
• The Winters Reserved Water Rights Doctrine in the 21st Century: Further Definition Through Litigation
  DUANE MECHAM, Office of the Regional Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, Portland, Oregon
• Interstate Litigation, State Reaction, and Federalism in the Age of Groundwater
  BURKE W. GRIGGS, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas
• Annual Environmental Law Update
  SHANISHA Y. SMITH, BakerHostetler, Houston, Texas
• NEPA and the Case of Climate Change: An Analysis of the Climate Change Considerations Required to Satisfy NEPA in Energy and Infrastructure Projects
  ANA GUTIÉRREZ, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Denver, Colorado
  DALE RATLIFF, Lewis, Bess, Williams & Weese P.C., Denver, Colorado
• Regulatory Adaptation in the Energy Sector: Common Challenges and Emerging Solutions
  RYAN B. STOA and CHASE PETTY, Research Assistant, Concordia University School of Law, Boise, Idaho
  ALI MOSTAFAVI and QINGCHUN LI & KAMBIZ RASOULKHANI, Graduate Research Assistants, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
  ED JASELSKIS and ABDULLAH ALSHAREF & SIDDHARTH BANERJEE, Graduate Research Assistants, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University,
  Raleigh, North Carolina
  JIN ZHU and SUDIPTA CHOWDHURY, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
• Ethics in Spill Reporting
  H. MAX KELLN, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Where Is the Original? How Do Electronic Signatures, Online Notaries, and E-Recording Change Our Record Driven Industry . . . or Do They
  CELIA C. FLOWERS, Flowers Davis, P.L.L.C., Tyler, Texas
• From Leasing to Litigation: How Pennsylvania Lessors' Perspective Is Formed by a Historical Legal Backdrop and a Patchwork of Uncertainty Going Forward
  JOHN M. SMITH, Smith Butz, LLC, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
• Quiet Title Actions: A Landman’s Curative Tool of Last Resort?
  DAVID B. HATCH, Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City, Utah
  
  

Published December 2019 - Hardbound volume - ISBN 978-1-943497-31-7.