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CONTACT DETAILS
CEPMLP
The University of Dundee
Carnegie Building
Dundee DD1 4HN
Room 1.04
Telephone: +44 (0)1382 384388
Fax: +44 (0)1382 385854
Contact Email: p.d.cameron@dundee.ac.uk
Peter Cameron is Professor of International Energy Law and Policy and Director of Research at the Centre. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Special Member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He has been an expert witness in a number of cases involving petroleum agreements and taxation issues. He has extensive international experience of drafting oil, gas and energy laws and contracts.
His academic positions have also included: professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy; visiting professor at the University of Madrid (Autonoma) and Director of the International Institute of Energy Law in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Over a period of more than 20 years, Prof Cameron has been a regular adviser to the World Bank, the EBRD, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and many governments in developing countries. He was the leader of several European Commission funded projects aimed at promoting the signature and ratification of the Energy Charter Treaty.
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Prof Cameron at the Gazprom Command Centre, Moscow |
He has organised and chaired numerous workshops, seminars and conferences concerning petroleum and energy law issues worldwide and given presentations in all continents. In 2000 he led a group of postgraduate students in carrying out a review of the draft South African mining and minerals law, which was officially congratulated by the Minister for Mines and Energy.
He is a prolific author of books and articles on petroleum and energy law issues. His most recent book is "Competition in Energy Markets: Law and Regulation in the European Union" (Oxford University Press, 2007). His current work concerns stabilisation clauses in the international energy industry: "International Energy Investment Law: The Pursuit of Stability" (Oxford University Press, 2009). He has been Joint Editor of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law and has served on the Editorial Board of the Oil and Gas Law and Taxation Review.
Research
Current research interests include the following:
Stabilisation clauses in the international energy industry for a book to be published in early 2009 by Oxford University Press;
European energy law (various article-length publications)
Legal Aspects of the Gas Industry, including LNG
Teaching
EC Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy (On-Campus)
The principal aim of the course is to provide an introduction to the main law and policy issues relating to the energy sector of the EC. An introduction to EC institutions, its legal system and its procedures and origins is provided, with particular reference to energy issues. Particular emphasis is placed upon the policy of increasing energy integration among the 27 Member States, known as the Internal Energy Market, and the possible lessons it may yield for liberalisation in other parts of the world (in addressing problems such as stranded costs, unbundling and third party access, for example). The EU external policy towards non-member countries is also considered as is the growing role of environmental policy in fields such as renewable energy and climate change. The approach does not presuppose any previous knowledge of EC law on the part of the student, but this would be an advantage.
International and Comparative Petroleum Law and Policy (On-Campus)
The main objective of the course is to provide an introduction to the main law and policy issues in the international petroleum industry, with an emphasis upon transactional arrangements concluded between host government and oil company/investors. Common and diverging objectives between the two parties and indeed among the international corporate and financial investors themselves are faced in a candid and practical way, with an emphasis upon ways of accommodating the interests of diverse stakeholders in the development of petroleum resources. A brief introduction is provided to petroleum taxation issues. The approach is a comparative one and focuses upon problem-solving techniques in a variety of settings, noting the inputs of lawyers, economists, accountants, engineers and geologists.
