Publications -- Alastair R. Lucas

Books / Monographs

Muldoon, P., Lucas, A.R., Gibson, R.B., and Pickfield, P., An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in Canada, Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009.

Lucas, A. and Cotton, R. (Eds), Halsbury's Laws of Canada, Environment (LexisNexis, 2007)

Barton, B., Barrera-Hernández, L., Lucas, A.R., and Rønne, A., (eds.), Regulating Energy and Natural Resources, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hughes, L., Lucas, A.R. and Tilleman W. (eds.), Environmental Law and Practice. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 3rd Ed., 2003.

Zillman, D., Lucas, A.R. and Pring, R. (eds.), Human Rights in Natural Resource Development: Public Participation in the Sustainable Development of Mining and Energy Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 710 pp.

Barrera-Hernández, L., Lucas, A.R., McCoy, E. and McCready, J., Energy and Environmental Law in Latin America and the Caribbean: Legislative Inventory and Analysis. Calgary, Quito: University of Calgary/Latin American Energy Organization, 2000, 99 pp.

Lucas, A.R. (Gen. Ed.), Copp, J.C., O'Ferrall, B.K., Giebelhaus-Mains, D.H., Francis, W., and Sherk, M. (Service eds.), Alberta Environmental Law Service. Calgary: Carswell, 1995.

Lucas, A.R. and Hunt, C.D., Oil and Gas Law in Canada. Calgary: Carswell 1990, 265 pp.

Lucas, A.R. Security of Title in Canadian Water Rights. Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law 1990, 102 pp.

Anthony, R.J. and Lucas, A.R., A Handbook on The Conduct of Public Inquiries in Canada. Toronto: Butterworths, 1985, xii, 273 pp.

Franson, M.A., Franson, R.T. and Lucas, A.R., Environmental Standards: A Comparative Study of Canadian Standards, Standard Setting Processes and Enforcement. Edmonton: Environment Council of Alberta, 1983, 206 pp.

Finkle, P. and Lucas, A.R. (eds.), Environmental Law in The 1980's: A New Beginning. Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 1983, 233 pp. including integrative Introduction.

Hunt, C.D. and Lucas, A.R., Environmental Regulation: Oil Sands and Arctic. Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 1980.

Hunt, C.D. and Lucas A.R., Canada Energy Law Service. Toronto: Richard DeBoo Ltd., 1980 approximately 3000 pp., regularly updated (original principal co-author and co-editor).

Lucas, A.R. and Bell, T., The National Energy Board: Policy, Procedure, Practice. Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1977, xi, 216 pp.

Franson, R.T. and Lucas, A.R., (since 1992, Cotton, R. and Lucas, A.R.), Canadian Environmental Law. Toronto: Butterworths, 1976, 6 vols., approximately 6000 pages, regularly updated.

 

Articles / Chapters 2005-2012

Lucas, A. "Canadian Energy Infrastructure and the Federalist Dilemma", in Energy Networks and the Law: Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets, Martha M. Roggenkamp, Lila Barrera-Hernández, Donald N. Zillman, and Iñigo del Guayo, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Lucas, A. (with Brenda Kenny and Harrie Vredenburg) “The new role of law in stimulating industrial innovation and regional development: the Canadian experience with reflexive law in reconciling economic development, environmental protection and entrepreneurship in the energy industry” (2012) 4:1 International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 8-27.

Lucas, A., "The Significance of Property Rights in Biotic Sequestration of Carbon". In, McHarg, A., Barton, B., Bradbrook, A. and Godden, L. (Eds.), Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 437-452.

Meadows, T. and Lucas, A.R., "Alberta Climate Change Law and Policy". In Mahoney, D. (Ed.), The Law of Climate Change in Canada, Toronto: Canada Law Book, 2010.

Lucas, A.R., The Canadian Energy / Environmental Regime: A Constitutional Overview. In M. Monnin and J. Stefaniuk (Eds.), 2008 Isaac Pitblado Lectures: Legal Issues in a Greener World, Winnipeg: Law Society of Manitoba, 2008.

Lucas, A.R., Thompson, C., and Daudu, W., "Heavy Duty Transition Fuels: Oil Sands and Heavy Oil", in Zillman, D., Redgwell, C., Omorogbe, Y., and Barrera-Hernandez, L., (Eds.), Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy Law in Transition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, Ch 11, pp 231- 63.

Lucas, A., "Energy Law: The Court and The Prosperity Bonus". In Swainger, J. (ed.), The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2007, pp. 227-255.

Lucas, A.R., "Mythology, Fantasy and Federalism: Canadian Climate Change Policy and Law" (2007) 20 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, 42-59.

Kwasniak, A., and Lucas, A.R., "Dribs and Drabs: Western United States and Canadian Responses to Water Scarcity" (2007), 53 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 16-1 - 16-35.

Lucas, A.R., Potes, V., "Voluntary Approaches and Formal Regulation: Climate Change and Canada's Energy Sector".  In Barton, B., Barrera-Hernández, L., Lucas, A.R., and Rønne, A., Regulating Energy and Natural Resources, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 317-334.

Lucas, A.R., "Implementing the Kyoto Protocol in North America" [2006] International Energy Law and Taxation Review, 48-55.

Kennett, S., Kwasniak, A., and Lucas, A.R., "Property Rights and the Legal Framework for Carbon Sequestration on Agricultural Land" (2006) 37 Ottawa Law Review, 171-213.

Lucas, A.R., and Dandu, O.W., "Disputes and Dispute Resolution in the Offset System", BIOCAP Canada Research Report, 2006, www.biocap.ca.

Lucas, A.R., "The Alberta Energy Sector's Voluntary Approach to Climate Change: Context, Prospects and Limits". In G. Bruce Doern (Ed.), Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development (Toronto: UofT Press, 2005) pp. 293-310.

 

Other Recent Scholarly Activity

Chair - Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the International Bar Association's Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law - for two years from May 2010.

Member, Organizing Committee - First Annual Energy Regulatory Forum, Calgary, May 19, 2010.

Presentation: "New Roles for Property in the Energy and Natural Resources Sectors", International Bar Association Biennial Conference of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law: Challenges for Resources in a Changing World, Toronto, April 27, 2010.

Organizer and Co-Chair - Colloquium on Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources: Program led by the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the International Bar Association's Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law, Toronto, April 24, 2010.

Presentation: "Environmental Assessment and Public Interest Regulation in Alberta", Conference on The Demise of Environmental Assessment in Canada, Journal of Environmental Law & Practice and University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Windsor, October 23, 2009