Hydraulic Fracturing: A Guide to Environmental and Real Property Issues

Keith B. Hall holds the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law at Louisiana State University, where he serves as Director of the Mineral Law Institute and as Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center. He also holds the Campanile Charities Professorship in Energy Law. He teaches Mineral Rights, International Petroleum Transactions, Civil Law Property, and Energy Law & Regulation.

Professor Hall is the co-author of three books on oil and gas law— (1) The Law of Oil and Gas (a national casebook), (2) International Petroleum Law and Transactions, and (3) Hydraulic Fracturing: a Guide to Environmental and Real Property Issues. He also is an editor of The Regulation of Decommissioning, Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry, a book on decommissioning regulations around the world.

Professor Hall’s shorter publications have focused on carbon capture and storage, implied covenants in oil and gas leases, joint operating agreements, oil and gas pooling and unitization, induced seismicity, and legal issues relating to hydraulic fracturing. He also has worked on issues relating to the right to extract lithium from produced water or other brine.

In addition to teaching at LSU, Professor Hall has taught energy law classes as a visiting professor at Baku State University in Azerbaijan, as a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola School of Law in New Orleans.

Professor Hall serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Institute for Energy Law’s “Oil & Gas E-Report.” He is active in the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation), and the Association of International Energy Negotiators.

Professor Hall has served as an expert for oil and gas disputes arising in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as well as outside the U.S. He also has served as an arbitrator and drafted amicus briefs.

Before joining the LSU faculty in 2012, Professor Hall practiced law at a major firm in New Orleans for sixteen years, and before that he worked for eight years as a chemical engineer in the petrochemical industry. He graduated from Loyola Law School in 1996 (J.D.) and from Louisiana State University in 1985 (B.S., Chem. Eng.).