Rate My Professor Keith Hall

Keith Hall is the Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law and Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he joined the faculty in 2012. He serves as Director of the Mineral Law Institute and Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center. Hall earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1985 and a J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 1996. Prior to his academic career, he worked for eight years as a chemical engineer in the petrochemical industry and for sixteen years as a partner at Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. in New Orleans, specializing in oil and gas litigation and transactions, environmental law, and toxic tort litigation. He has also taught energy law as a visiting professor at Baku State University in Azerbaijan and the University of Pittsburgh, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Professor Hall teaches Mineral Rights, International Petroleum Transactions, Civil Law Property, and Energy Law & Regulation. His research specializations include carbon capture and storage, oil and gas wastewater management, implied covenants in oil and gas leases, joint operating agreements, pooling and unitization, induced seismicity, hydraulic fracturing, and rights to extract lithium from produced water or brines. He is the co-author of three oil and gas law books: The Law of Oil and Gas (national casebook), International Petroleum Law and Transactions, and Hydraulic Fracturing: A Guide to Environmental and Real Property Issues. He co-edited and authored chapters in The Regulation of Decommissioning, Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry and authored Louisiana Real Property Law and Practice. Key recent publications are “Local Government Regulation of CCS” in 24 Wyoming Law Review 473 (2024) and “Implied Duties Under Oil and Gas Leases in Texas and Louisiana” in 12 LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources 431 (2024). In 2023, he received a $98,000 grant from the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation to study carbon sequestration compensation, leading to a 2025 white paper. Awards include the 2025 Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award from the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law and selection to deliver the Deans of Oil and Gas Practice Lecture. Hall is Editor-in-Chief of the Institute for Energy Law’s Oil & Gas E-Report, Treasurer of FNREL, and has served as an expert witness and arbitrator in oil and gas disputes across multiple U.S. states and internationally.