John Lowe

TECHNICAL FACULTY

MANAGEMENT FACULTY

Organization: Southern Methodist University

John Lowe is Geo. W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law since 1989. Honorary Lecturer and Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law, the University of Dundee, Scotland, since 2000.

From 1978-1989 Professor of Law and Associate Director of the National Energy Law & Policy Institute, the University of Tulsa. From 1975-1978 Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Toledo. Visiting Professor at Denver, Texas, and New Mexico. Private practice 1970-1975. Government practice (Government of Malawi) 1966-1969. Member of the bars of Texas, Oklahoma, and Ohio.

He teaches oil and gas law, oil and gas contracts, international petroleum contracts, and property law. Has trained oil-company and mineral-owner personnel in both "in-house" and public programs for more than 25 years. Has testified in deposition, court or hearing more than 50 times. Has arbitrated or mediated more than twenty-five cases in the last ten years involving oil and gas operating agreements, purchase and sales, joint ventures, construction contracts and electric-industry power purchase agreements. Four were international disputes. Professor Lowe is immediate Past President and Member of the Executive Committee, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Former Chair of the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law of the American Bar Association; former Member, ABA Coordinating Group on Energy Law; former Vice Chair and member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the Energy Law Institute of the Center for American and International Law [formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation]; former member of the Council of the Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law Section of the Texas State Bar Association; former member of the Council of the Energy Law Section and former member of the Council of the International Law Section, the Dallas Bar Association. AAA and CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution arbitrator. Member of the Advisory Board, SMU-in-Legacy Dispute Resolution Program, 2001-2004.

He is author or editor of more than 50 books and articles, including INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM TRANSACTIONS, OIL AND GAS LAW IN A NUTSHELL, CASES AND MATERIALS ON OIL AND GAS LAW, HEMINGWAY OIL AND GAS LAW AND TAXATION, Volumes 6, 7 and 7A of West's TEXAS FORMS, and Volume 28 of West's LEGAL FORMS. One of the maintenance editors for SUMMERS ON OIL AND GAS LAW (West) and KUNTZ ON THE LAW OF OIL AND GAS (Anderson).

He has B.A. in Economics from Denison University and LL.B. from Harvard University