Selected Publications & Presentations
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Co-Author, “USA Oil & Gas Regulation,” International Comparative Law Guides (annual editions, 2011 - 2019).
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Speaker, "Navigating Floating LNG Contract Complexities," 11th Annual FLNG Conference, London, September 7, 2016.
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Author, "Mexican Energy - Has Mexico Finally Got It Right?" Financier Worldwide Global Reference Guide 2011: Energy & Utilities.
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Speaker, "International Law: Practical, Ethical and Cultural Challenges," Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel: Managing Non-US Attorneys in International Transactions, Denver, Colorado, March 16, 2011.
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Author, “Project Financing of Cross-Border Pipelines,” Chapter 24, Energy and Environmental Law and Taxation, Oxford University Press (2010).
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Author, "Green is the Color of Federal Energy Spending in the 2010 Budget," Texas Lawyer/Energy Lawyer, May 2009.
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Author, "Hedging Gas Supply Risks: Are LNG Terminals the Answer?" Bloomberg European Law Journal, November 2008.
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Author, "LNG Sales and Shipping: The Evolution of Delivery Terms from the Empirical to the Existential," 2 Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law 35 (2007).
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Speaker, "International Mergers and Acquisitions: The Method,” Symposium, Center for American & International Law. Dallas, June 27, 2006.
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Speaker, "To Arbitrate or Not to Arbitrate…That is the Question," 28th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Houston, April 6, 2006.
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Speaker, “Supply Security, Price, Terminal Growth and Off-Take,” Platts 5th Annual Liquefied Natural Gas Conference, May 18, 2006.
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Lecturer, General Counsel’s Roundtable, Stanford University CRGP, February 10, 2006.
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Luncheon Speaker, "LNG: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," Platt's 4th Annual LNG Conference, Houston, May 12, 2005.
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Author, "Contracting Practices for the New 'Global' LNG Trade," Oil & Gas Journal, LNG Observer, May 2005.
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Speaker, "The Latest Contracting Practices for a More Flexible LNG Trade," GASTECH 2005, Bilbao, March 16, 2005.
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Author, “The Hackberry LNG Decision, LNG Regulation: A Recent History,” Energy Markets, October 2004.
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Author, “The International Lawyer as Conductor of the Global Symphony,” Chapter 3, Careers in International Law, American Bar Association (2001).
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Organizer, Script Writer and Moderator for a series of programs entitled "Mock LNG Negotiations and Dispute Resolution," at the AIPN 1997 Fall Conference, Kuala Lumpur, September 16, 1997; the ABA Spring Meeting, New Orleans, 1998; and the AIPN 1998 Fall Conference, London, September 15, 1998.
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Speaker, "Arbitrating Technology Disputes," Houston International Law Symposium, February 22-23, 1996.
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Author, “Privatization of the Mexican Banking System: Quetzalcoatl and the Bankers,” 23 St. Mary’s Law Journal 753 (1992). `
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Co-Author and chief lobbyist for the successful passage of the Texas Foreign Bank Agency Act, 1985.
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Co-Author, “Texas as an International Banking Centre,” Chapter 19, International Banking Centres, Euromoney Publications (1982).
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Author, “Are Government Bodies Bound by Arbitration Agreements” 22 The Arbitration Journal (Dispute Resolution Journal) 151 (1967). An AAA Eastman Arbitration Library Prize-Winning Essay.