Education
The Institute actively contributes to the resources law community by sponsoring conferences and brief courses. Workshops and seminars have been offered throughout Canada, and have dealt with numerous topics including:
- Contract law for personnel in the energy sector;
- Environmental law for practitioners;
- Resource development and aboriginal land rights;
- Interjurisdictional water management;
- Human rights and resource development in Alberta; and
- Legal and regulatory approaches to integrated resource management.
The Institute also contributes its expertise to the regular teaching program at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, which offers a concentrated curriculum in resources law. Staff members also teach in a variety of programs outside the law school.
Course on "Contract Law for Personnel in the Energy Industry"
The Canadian Institute of Resources Law is offering a course entitled, "Contract Law for Personnel in the Energy Industry". The Institute has offered this course over 61 times during the past 20 years as both an in-house and a public course. We have received excellent feedback about its usefulness for those working with various types of agreements in the energy sector.
The course is designed for non-lawyers, and is based on the premise that people who work with contracts on a daily basis benefit from a knowledge of the basic legal principles applicable to contracts. The course is not designed to turn out participants sufficiently trained to do their own legal work.
The course examines such issues as how a contract is formed and terminated, the concepts of consideration and privity, judicial approaches to the interpretation of contracts, and damages. In addition, the course scrutinizes a number of clauses commonly found in energy industry contracts. The course does not focus on specific types of contracts used in the industry, but is geared for industry personnel at all levels whose jobs require them to understand the basics of contract law.
The course is taught as a mixture of lectures and small group problem-solving. Two instructors are provided and the materials are continuously edited to keep them up to date.
The instructors are Professor Nicholas Rafferty of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and Nickie Vlavianos, Professor of Law at the University of Calgary and Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Resources Law.
The cost of the two-day in-house course is $9,800 with a maximum of 30 people. The price for the one-day in-house course is $6,500 also for a maximum of 30 people. Both courses are taught in the same manner, with the one-day course covering the key topics in a more succinct manner.
The cost of a public two-day course is $525 per person.
We know this course will be very beneficial to your organization. We would be very grateful if you could forward this information to the appropriate people as necessary. Should you require further information or have any questions, please contact Sue Parsons, Course Coordinator at (403) 220-3200 or sparsons@ucalgary.ca. We look forward to hearing from you.