Professor Christopher S. Kulander
 |
Assistant Professor of Law, 2011 Email: chris.kulander@ttu.edu (806) 742-3990 ext. 295 |
Admitted to practice in New Mexico and Texas.
Professor Kulander joined the faculty in 2011. Before entering teaching, he practiced law in the Houston office of the firm of Haynes and Boone, LLP for four years and, before that, with the firm of Cotton & Bledsoe in Midland, Texas. His teaching and research interests include oil and gas law, general property and land use control, American Indian law, and energy law. Prior to entering law school, he served as a geophysicist for the United States Geological Survey in Denver and as a field geologist for the State of West Virginia.
While in law school, Professor Kulander served as Managing Editor for the Oklahoma Bar Mineral Law Newsletter, Note Editor and Assisting Managing Editor for the American Indian Law Review, and as research assistant for Owen L. Anderson, Eugene Kuntz Chair of Oil and Gas Law from 2002 - 2005.
Degrees
J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law, 2005 (with distinction)
Ph.D., Geophysics (Petroleum Seismology), Texas A&M University, 1999
M.S., Geophysics, Wright State University, 1995
B.S., Geology, Wright State University, 1993
Courses
- Oil & Gas Law I
- Oil & Gas Law II
- Property
- Mining Law
- Texas Land Titles & Mineral Title Examination
Selected Publications
American Law and Jurisprudence on Fracing, with Thomas Kurth, Michael Mazzone and Mary Mendoza, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2010.
Gas Shale and Hydraulic Fracturing Work for Our Nation, Environmental Leader, October 25, 2010.
Navasota v. First Source Texas and Its Effects on Packaged Sales and Preferential Rights to Purchase Clauses, with Kirk Worley, S. Tex. L. Rev., Vol. 52, No. 2 (Winter 2011).
Exploring the Great White North, Oil and Gas Investor, Vol. 30, No. 9 (September, 2010).
The Arctic: Past the Last Frontier, with Sergei Lomako, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, Vol. 20, No. 1, (Spring 2010).
Revisiting the Executive Right to Lease Oil & Gas Interests, Texas Tech Law Review, V. 42, No. 1, 2009.
Surface Use and Access for Oil and Gas Exploration in Frontier Areas, Landman, V. 54, No. 3, May/June 2009.
The New Petroleum Categories and Valuation Requirements of the SEC, with Bill Nelson, Oklahoma Mineral Law Section Newsletter, Vol. XXVI, No. 5, May 2009.
Operator Removal Under Form Joint Operating Agreements in Texas, Permian Basin Landmen's Association Newsletter, May 2009.
Wagner & Brown, Ltd. v. Sheppard - the Supreme Court Releases Opinion Affecting Texas Landmen, Houston Association of Professional Landmen Newsletter, May, 2009.
Surface Damages, Site-Remediation and Well Bonding in Wyoming - Results and Analysis of Recent Regulations, University of Wyoming Law Review, V. 9, No. 2, 2009.
Additional Provisions to Form Joint Operating Agreements, with Mark Mathews, Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section Report, State Bar of Texas, V. 33, No. 2, December 2008.
Practitioner's Pathfinder for Approaching Foreign Investment in Oil & Gas Real Property in Texas and New Mexico, Texas Transnational Law Quarterly, V. 21, No. 3 June, 2008.
A Flock of Trouble: Liability Under Oil and Gas Joint Operating Agreements After Seagull v. Eland, with David W. Lauritzen, Texas Wesleyan Law Review, V. 14, No. 2, 2008.
Split-Estate Issues on Indian Lands, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law, V. 2, No. 1, page 125, 2007.
The Art of Reconciling the Joint Operating Agreement and the COPAS Accounting Procedure, with Susan Richardson, Arkansas Bar Association Natural Resource Law Institute, February 2006.
Gas Balancing Agreements - Fundamentals & New Developments, Oklahoma Mineral Law Section Newsletter, Vol. XXVI, No. 5, December 2005.
Take-or-Pay Royalties, the Trust Doctrine, and the Shoshone Case, American Indian Law Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, 2005.
Regional Seismic Lines Across the Rome Trough and Alleghany Plateau of northern West Virginia, western Maryland, and southwestern Pennsylvania, with Robert T. Ryder, U.S. Geological Survey, Geological Investigations Series Map I-2791, 2005.
Interpreted regional seismic reflection lines, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, with Christopher J. Potter, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2005-1402, December 2005.