John S. Lowe is the George W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law and former Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the

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.Lowe's Biography at the SMU website
Accessed July 28, 2010. He specializes in

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Biography

Lowe received his B.A. in 1963 from

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and his LL.B. in 1966 from

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. He was a Maxwell Fellow in

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from 1966 to 1969. Lowe practiced law in

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from 1970 to 1975. He was assistant professor, and later associate professor, at the

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from 1975 to 1978. He was professor and associate director of the National Energy Law and Policy Institute at the

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, starting in 1978. In 1987, he became professor at Southern Methodist University, where he has since taught courses on oil and gas law and oil and gas

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. He also has been a visiting professor at several universities around the world, including at the

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Scholarly work and impact

Lowe's research has made a significant impact in energy law. He is the author of ''Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell'' (6th ed. 2014)."OIL AND GAS LAW: A Selective Research Guide," from th
Cooley Law School website
. Accessed July 28, 2010. He is the co-author of three

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textbooks, ''International Petroleum Transactions'' (3d ed. Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fdn. 2010), ''Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law'' (6th ed. West 2013) and ''Hemingway's Hornbook on Oil and Gas Law and Taxation'' (5th ed. West 2017). He has written dozens of articles in scholarly journals, including the ''Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute''. Lowe has been President of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and Chair of the

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's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. He may be the only academic to have held both posts. He holds a named-chair appointment at the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University, a major institution of higher education and research. The SMU School of Law is consistently ranked in the 40-50 range for the nation's top law schools in the U.S. News & World Report.US News website
. Accessed August 2, 2010.

References

External links

Biography at the SMU website

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