NREELR Members

Chair of Natural Resources Law and Professor Nigel Bankes

Research interests: Regulatory ownership and liability issues in carbon capture and storage; Aboriginal Law, especially resources law; Circumpolar law; energy law, international environmental law, water law, international water resources law, oil and gas law (regulation and private law); resources law
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Research interests: Constitutional jurisdiction over greenhouse gas emission regulation and carbon offset markets; environmental law and policy; comparative energy and environmental law; international environmental law; oil and gas and energy law
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Research interests: Legal instruments for protection of wetlands and conservation lands; environmental law; natural resources law; water la; municipal law and policy
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Research interests: The use of legal process by public interest environmental groups to preserve wilderness, implementing environmental principles in law, and public participation in natural resources and environmental decision-making.
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Research interests: public participation in energy, natural resources and environmental decision making; theories of environmental liability, including the polluter pays principle; liability regimes for the clean up of environmental damage; the role of human rights law in natural resources development; the constitutional jurisdiction of administrative tribunals; the role of municipalities in natural resources and renewable energy development; the legal and regulatory framework for oil and gas, including oil sands, development in Alberta; and the role and mandate of Canada’s National Energy Board
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Research interests: Regulation of the Canadian and international energy and mining sectors
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Research interests: trade law, electricity deregulation, domestic and transboundary water law and policy, problems associated with resource development and federalism.
His publications include work on such topics as The Uruguay Round of GATT and Economic Regionalism; NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation; The Mexico Factor in North American Free Trade; Legal Aspects of International Diversions; Energy, Natural Resources and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement; and Interjurisdictional Issues in Canadian Water Management.

Her research interests and publications focus on legal and regulatory issues related to environmental, natural resources and energy law, as well as on indigenous peoples and global regulatory régimes.