CIRL

CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF RESOURCES LAW (CIRL)

The Faculty of Law's new strategic plan, UCalgary Law 2010 - 2015: Energy. Skill. Excellence. was approved by Faculty of Law Council May 4, 2010.  This new strategic plan confirms and elaborates upon the goals that were the core of our 2004-2009 Plan, including the goal of confirming an international reputation for excellence in the Faculty's specialization: resources, energy and environmental law.

Working with the already well-established Canadian Institute of Resources Law (CIRL), we will continue to develop the best ideas and actions in teaching, research and community outreach in the Faculty’s declared energy, resources and environmental law specialization. The strategic initiatives for realizing our goal of earning and sustaining an international reputation for excellence in resources, energy and environmental law involves fully integrating CIRL within the Faculty. In addition to the high-impact research for which it has always been known, CIRL will facilitate cross-pollination of the best ideas and actions in teaching, research and community outreach in the Faculty of Law’s declared specialization. Recognizing the integrated reality of today’s legal scholarship or legal practice, CIRL take a broad view of the fields of resources, energy and environmental law to include industry-related business law, trade law, domestic and international law, dispute resolution and both theory and practice.