ENERGY NETWORKS AND THE LAW; Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets

Dr. Martha M. Roggenkamp is professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen, Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law, and board member of the Groningen Energy and Sustainability Programme. She has published widely on energy law issues since the early 1990s. She defended her PhD at the University of Leiden on the regulation of Oil and Gas Pipelines - Het Juridisch Kader van Pijpleidingen in de Olie- en Gasindustrie (PhD, Intersentia 1999). Martha is the editor in chief of the series Energy & Law published by Intersentia (Antwerp), a member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Energy Law and of the editorial committee of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the International Energy Law Review and the Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review. She also holds the chair of the Dutch Association of Energy Lawyers. She teaches energy law at the University of Groningen and is the coordinator of the North Sea Energy Law Program.

Dr. Lila Barrera-Hernández is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and member of the Natural Resources Research Group, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, Canada. She is also member of the Academic Advisor Group (AAG) of the International Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (IBA-SEERIL). She has published numerous books and articles on a variety of topics ranging from energy security to indigenous participation and land tenure in Latin America. She has over 12 years' experience in sustainable development practice. She has worked extensively in Latin America on environmental and energy development issues. Her experience covers a wide range of activities, including providing advice to governments on regulatory and institutional strengthening, training of government officers on different aspects of environmental law and practice, and participating in the preparation of strategic environmental assessments and sustainable development plans.

Donald Zillman has been a tenured faculty member at Arizona State University from 1974-79, the University of Utah from 1979-90, and the University of Maine School of Law from 1991 to the present, where he is currently the President of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He holds the Edward Godfrey Professorship at the Maine law school. His teaching and scholarship have concentrated on energy, environmental, and natural resources law and the constitutional governance of the military. At the University of Utah, he received the Law School's Burlington Northern Outstanding Teacher Award. His research has produced ten books and over 50 scholarly articles including in the leading legal journals of the University of Texas, Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of North Carolina, and Notre Dame University.

Iñigo del Guayo studied law (LLM: 1982-1987) at the University of Navarre, where he also got his PhD (1987-1991). He became Professor in Administrative Law in 1997, having previously held the position of Junior and Senior Lecturer. He teaches and researches in the field of Administrative Law, Public Economic Law, and Energy Law. He has published extensively in those areas. He enjoyed a British Academy Scholarship and has conducted research in several institutions in the EU and the USA.