Professor John Paterson

Professor John Paterson
Professor John Paterson
Professor John Paterson

LLB(Hons), DipLP (Aberdeen), LLM (Edinburgh), PhD (European University Institute)

Chair in Law

About
Email Address
j.paterson@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273888
Office Address

Taylor Building, Room C33

School/Department
School of Law

Biography

Professor Paterson trained as a solicitor in the Office of the Solicitor to the Secretary of State for Scotland before pursuing an academic career. After studying at the EUI, Florence, Italy, he was a Research Assistant at the Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, where he worked principally on the Governance Project with the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission. He was Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Westminster between 1998 and 2004 when he joined the University of Aberdeen as a Reader. He was appointed Professor of Law in August 2011. He was Acting Head of School 2011-12 and Vice Principal for Internationalisation 2016-18. He is a co-founder of the Centre for Energy Law and directs Aberdeen's involvement in the North Sea Energy Law Programme.

His research has covered systems theory, the regulation of risk, governance in the EU, corporate governance and energy law. He has been involved in a number of international projects both in research and teaching. He has provided specialist training in oil and gas law and corporate governance for the corporate sector, expert advice in international arbitration, and consultancy to international organisations. He is series editor (together with Professor Julian Webb) of the Law, Science and Society series published by Routledge-Cavendish.

Publications

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  • Licensing the Exploration for and Production of Petroleum on the UK Continental Shelf

    Gordon, G. W., Paterson, J. B.
    Regulation of The Upstream Petroleum Sector: A Comparative Study of Licensing and Concession Systems. Hunter, T. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 107-132, 25 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Prevention of and Response to Shale Gas Well Incidents: An Assessment of the Current UK Regulatory Framework for Shale Gas Activities

    Hunter, T., Paterson, J.
    Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, vol. 12, no. 3, 3473
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Health, safety and the environment

    Paterson, J.
    The Encyclopaedia of Oil and Gas Law: Volume One: Upstream. Pereira, E. G., Holding, S. (eds.). Globe Law and Business, pp. 219-228, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Robust offshore risk regulation - an assessment of US, UK and Norwegian approaches

    Lindøe, P. H., Baram, M., Paterson, J.
    Innovative Governance Models for Emerging Technologies. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 235-253, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Laying down the law over fracking

    Paterson, J.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
  • DHI/SCDI Energy and Constitutional Change Conversation: Oil and Gas

    Paterson, J. B., Gordon, G. W.
    Edinburgh: David Hume Institute. 32 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
  • A Systems Theory Perspective on Polanyi’s Great Transformation

    Paterson, J.
    Studies in Law, Politics and Society, vol. 62, pp. 49-72
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Law’s Role in the Tension between Security and Sovereignty in the Field of Energy Resources

    Paterson, J. B.
    Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas. McNeish, J. A., Logan, O. (eds.). Pluto Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Occupational Health and Safety Law: the Oil and Gas Industry

    Paterson, J. B.
    Environmental and Energy Law. Pereira, R., Makuch, K. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 225-239, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Law's approach to harm in the context of scientific uncertainty: observations from the perspectives of precaution and indeterminate causation

    Paterson, J. B.
    Perspectives on Causation. Goldberg, R. (ed.). Hart Publishing, pp. 383-408
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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