Spring 2019
6326 Diplomacy for Oil and Gas - CARDENAS- 12103
Professor(s):
Julian Cardenas Garcia (RESEARCH PROFESSOR)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
International Law
Time: 7:30p-9:00p MW Location: 240 BLB
Course Outline: This course features the crossroads between geopolitics and the law of the oil and gas industry. From Houston, a world capital of energy diplomacy, we will study the legal instruments that have been built to govern inter-state and state-corporate relations in the oil industry, providing to the students political and economic background for investment strategies of the oil industry.
Readings for this course will be focused on international treaties and public international law applicable to the oil and gas industry. We will also study selected chapters on energy geopolitics such as:
1)The Energy World is Flat by Daniel Lacalle and Diego Parrilla
2)The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
3)The End of Power by Moises Naim
4)Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally"
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
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Final Exam Schedule: Paper
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
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Course Materials (12/11/2018 5:25:10 PM)
No book required for this course
