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Contact Email: e.a.bastida@dundee.ac.uk
Elizabeth Bastida is a lecturer and leads the Mining Programme at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee. She teaches International and Comparative Mineral Law. Elizabeth has researched extensively on the analysis and evaluation of prevailing models of the legal, institutional and contractual framework for the mining sector from a sustainable development perspective. Her research has contributed in 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. While grounded in theory, her research intends to provide bridges to enhance practice in the sector. She has keen interest in what has been called "knowledge transfer" and has worked extensively in teaching and training materials in her subject.
Elizabeth has recently moved to a part-time lecturer position as she does advisory work, particularly on the social dimension of development projects. She 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 (Specialisation in Natural Resources Law, University of Buenos Aires (cum laude); LL.M in Resources Law and Policy (CEPMLP, Dundee; with distinction), Ph.D (CEPMLP/Dundee).
Research
Her current research interests include the interface between the "resource curse" debate and law and contractual practices in the extractive industries, and exploring mechanisms to enhance community participation in the extractive industries. She is working with John Southalan on a research project on "Court Interpretation of Indigenous Agreements" - with assistance of a grant from the Nuffield Foundation-. The aim of the project is compiling a free, searchable database of court and tribunal decisions that considered documents involving indigenous parties in various countries.
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.
