Dr Ana Elizabeth Bastida
Lecturer and Mining Programme Director
Elizabeth Bastida is a lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee. She teaches courses on the international, transnational and comparative aspects of the law and governance framework for mining. She also leads the Mining Programme, which aims at advancing knowledge and practice in the sector from a sustainable development perspective. Elizabeth has researched extensively on the analysis and evaluation of prevailing models of the legal, institutional and contractual regimes for the mining sector within a sustainable development framework. Her research aims at understanding patterns of law and regulation in the sector, exploring the interface with environmental regulation, human rights law and land law, and suggesting ways forward towards integrated frameworks that promote sustainable development.
Elizabeth has been a research fellow at the Institute of Social and Legal Sciences 'Ambrosio Gioja', Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires and has practised law with the firms Tomás de Pablos & Associates, Taffarel, Sanchez & Associates, and Hope, Duggan & Silva in Buenos Aires, with responsibilities in the Mineral and Environmental Law section. Elizabeth has been an external legal consultant to various governmental, intergovernmental, non-governmental organisations and corporate institutions, as well as companies. She has been Deputy Managing Editor of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law and assistant editor of the CEPMLP Internet Journal. She is a member of the Environmental Law Group of the IUCN, and of the Advisory Committee of the International Study Group for the Review of African Mining Regimes, under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
Elizabeth is a qualified lawyer in Argentina, University of Buenos Aires (UBA); Specialisation in Natural Resources Law, (UBA, cum laude); LL.M in Resources Law and Policy (CEPMLP, Dundee; with distinction), Ph.D (CEPMLP/Dundee).
Research
Her current research interests focus on the interface between the "resource curse" debate and law and contractual practices in the extractive industries. She is also contributing to the work of the International Study Group for the Review of African Mining Regimes, under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and to the Model Mining Development Agreement Project led by the Mining Law Committee of the International Bar Association (together with Julius Nayak).
Teaching
International and Comparative Mineral Law (On-Campus)
This module aims at introducing participants to main principles and concepts of legal, regulatory and contractual regimes for mining, from international and comparative perspectives and within a sustainable development framework. The focus is on the understanding of ownership and mineral tenure regimes; the interface between mineral tenure regimes, competitive uses of land and environmental regulation; forms and typical clauses of mining agreements; CSR, scope and implications of voluntary regulation; an introduction to underlying conflicts for the regulation of artisanal and small-scale mining; and methods for, and trends on, community engagement in mining projects.