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Owen L. Anderson is a Distinguished Oil and Gas Scholar and Co-Academic Director of the KBH Energy Center for Business, Law, and Policy at the University of Texas School of Law. He is the Eugene Kuntz Chair Emeritus in Law in Oil, Gas & Natural Resources and the George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy at the University of Dundee.

Professor Anderson has lectured at numerous universities and venues on six continents and throughout the United States. He has authored over 100 articles. He is a co-author of International Petroleum Law and Transactions, Texas Law of Oil and Gas, Oil and Gas Law and Taxation, Cases and Materials on Oil & Gas Law, and A Student's Guide to Estates in Land and Future Interests. He is co-editor in chief of the Texas Title Standards. He has co-authored supplements for Kuntz on Oil and Gas and Waters and Water Rights.

He serves as Faculty Adviser to the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas and Energy Law, the Editorial Advisory Board of the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Journal (ONE J), and helped found and served on the Executive Committee of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business. He is a member of the Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota bars; a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, where he serves as form and style editor of AIPN Model Contracts; a life member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; a member of the American Law Institute; a trustee of the Foundation of Natural Resources and Energy Law; and a trustee of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation. He is an arbitrator and consultant on oil and gas law and policy.