Faculty Advisors
Professor Ernest E. Smith
Professor Smith is a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and the Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law. He is a specialist in oil and gas law, co-author of the leading casebook on Oil and Gas Law (West, 4th ed., 2002) and the leading treatise on Texas Law of Oil and Gas (3 volumes, 2nd ed., LEXIS Law Pub., 1998). He is also a former Dean of the University of Texas School of Law. Professor Smith recently published an article entitled The Growing Demand for Oil & Gas and the Potential Impact on Rural Land in Volume 4 Issue 1 of The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law.
Professor John Dzienkowski
Professor Dzienkowski is a professor at the University of Texas School of Law focusing on topics related to international energy transactions and oil and gas taxation and the John F. Sutton, Jr. Chair in Lawyering and the Legal Process. In the area of natural resources, Professor Dzienkowski is a founding co-author of the first commercially produced casebook on Natural Resources Taxation (1988) and International Petroleum Transactions (1993 and 2000), and co-author of Hemingway’s Oil and Gas Law Taxation (2004). In 2004 Professor Dzienkowski received the Texas Exes Faculty Teaching Award.
Professor David Spence
Professor Spence is a Professor of Law, Politics, and Regulation at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He teaches Energy Law in both the School of Law and the School of Business. Professor Spence’s research and teaching focuses on business-government relations and the regulation of business, particularly energy and environmental regulation. He is co-author of Energy, Economics and the Environment (2d Ed. Foundation Press, 2006).