Professor Peter Cameron
LL.B, PhD, FCIArb
Director, Professor of International Energy Law and Policy, School Associate Dean Research
Law in Practice
Like many academic lawyers, Professor Cameron has drawn upon his academic skills to examine practical problems in the design and application of laws and contracts. In turn, this has fed into his work as an educator and researcher.
In recent years, his extra-academic work has been limited largely to expert witness work in international arbitration proceedings, reflecting the current direction of his research.
Background
Since the early 1980s, he has been a legal adviser or team leader on projects concerning petroleum legislation and contracts, EU gas and electricity legislative reform and regulatory issues for governments, national oil companies, international organisations and private oil companies. Some of them are the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Commission, the Energy Charter Secretariat, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, and various agencies of the United Nations (UN ESCAP, UN CTC and UNDP and UN ECE), as well as private companies and investors, such as BP, Shell, Goldman Sachs, Distrigas and Gasunie. On an ad hoc basis, he has also been invited by international consultancy firms and international financial institutions to act as legal adviser in oil and gas legal work.
His work has extended to most parts of the globe. He worked extensively in Central and East Europe, and Central Asia throughout the 1990s, mostly on oil, gas and electricity reform from a legal and regulatory perspective. This included petroleum regime design in Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Russia. Since then he has worked in Africa, with advisory work in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibi, Togo and Tanzania . He has been engaged to do legal work in the Middle East, including, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait . His involvement in EU countries includes work in Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Germany, and the Netherlands. His legal advisory work has also extended to most Asian Pacific countries, especially China, Afghanista , Kyrgyzstan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and key Latin American and Caribbean countries, such as Brazil , Trinidad & Tobago, and Suriname as well as Turkey.
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Prof Cameron at the Gazprom Command Centre, Moscow |
