Professor Greg Gordon
g.w.gordon@abdn.ac.uk
LL.B. (Hons), LL.M., Dip.LP, Ph.D, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Head of School of Law, Personal Chair
Taylor Building, Room C36
Greg Gordon joined the School of Law as a lecturer in 2004 after a period working in Aberdeen and London as a solicitor specialising in litigation, primarily in the oil and gas sector. He became a senior lecturer in 2011 and Professor Law in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prof Gordon is the Head of School. He previously served as Deputy Head of School and as the Co-Director for Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law.
Prof Gordon's principal teaching and research interests are in energy law (particularly upstream oil and gas law), delict/tort and commercial contracting.
Prof Gordon is an editorial board member of the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia and a Trustee of the TB Smith Memorial Trust. He is also a local committee member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and in this connection will be pleased to hear from students interested in becoming student members.
Internal Memberships
External Memberships
Editorial Board Member: Stair Memorial Encyclopedia
Visiting Lecturer and Fellow, Wuhan University (2018)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore (2016 & 2020)
Visiting Lecturer, Louisiana State University (2015)
External examiner, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Local Board member, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
Upstream oil and gas law; Scots law generally; the law of delict/tort.
Prof Gordon's present research projects focus primarily upon the decommissioning of offshore installations and the Scots law of negligence.
Teaching Responsibilities
Prof Gordon currently co-ordinates and/or teaches on the following the courses:
Level 1: Delict and Unjustified Enrichment
Level 2: Business Law (in Aberdeen and Qatar)
Level 3: Energy Law
Level 4: Civil Liberties
The North Sea Energy Law Programme (4-seat professional masters programme delivered in conjunction with the Universities of Groningen, Oslo and Copenhagen)
Contracting in Hydrocarbon Operations
Legal Principles (Distance Learning)
Cooperative Oil and Gas Contracts (Distance Learning)
Risk Allocation in Oil and Gas Service Sector Contracts (Distance Learning)
Legal Issues in Decommissioning Operations: Regulation (online and on campus)
Legal Issues in Decommissioning Operations: Commercial (online and on campus)
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Decommissioning of (Abandoned or Disused) Offshore Installations
2021 - Published
Yiallourides, C., Gordon, G. W.
Encyclopedia of Energy Law and the Environment. Roggenkamp, M., de Graaf, K., Fleming, R. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, 12 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
[ONLINE] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3383115
Petroleum Licences - a legal cultural perspective: The United Kingdom
Gordon, G., Paterson, J.
The Character of Petroleum Licences. Soliman Hunter, T., Sunde, J., Nordveit, E. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 119-138, 19 pages
Decommissioning of Offshore Installations upon the UK Continental Shelf
European Energy Law Report XIII. Roggenkamp, M., Banet, C. (eds.), pp. 307-327
[ONLINE] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/european-energy-law-report-xiii/decommissioning-of-offshore-installations-upon-the-uk-continental-shelf/EC063CF5A7621B17EBFB6846CBA5C3FE
Petroleum licences – a legal culture perspective: the United Kingdom
The Character of Petroleum Licences. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 119-138, 20 pages
[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976206.00011
[ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Background: the United Kingdom
Heffro, R., Hazrati, M., Gordon, G. W., McCauley, D.
Regulating Offshore Petroleum Resources. Pereira, E. G., Bjørnebye, H. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 128-164, 37 pages
Hydrocarbon Policies and Legislation: United Kingdom
Gordon, G.
Regulating Offshore Petroleum Resources. Pereira, E. G., Bjornebye, H. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 165-210, 46 pages
Business Regulation
Callander, I., Callander, A., Gordon, G. W.
Business Law in Scotland. Black, G. (ed.). 4th edition. W Green
[ONLINE] https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?productid=42602114&recordid=9926
Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Smith and South Africa: Eulogy for David Carey Miller
Gordon, G. W.
Northern Lights. Bain, D., Paisley, R., Simpson, A., Tait, N. (eds.). Aberdeen University Press, pp. 23-30, 8 pages
Current Practice and Emerging Trends in Regulating Onshore Exploration and Production in Great Britain
Gordon, G. W., Hunter, T., Latta, S.
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends. Gordon, G., Paterson, J., Üșenmez, E. (eds.). 3 edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 245-283, 38 pages
Oil and Gas Law on the UKCS: Current Practice and Emerging Trends in Public and regulatory Law
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends. Gordon, G., Paterson, J. (eds.). 3 edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 3-13, 11 pages
Oil and Gas Law on the UKCS: Current Practice and Emerging Trends in Contracting and Commercial Law
Gordon, G. W., Cowie, J.
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends. Gordon, G., Paterson, J., Üșenmez, E. (eds.). 3 edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 3-12, 10 pages
Petroleum Licensing
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends. Gordon, G., Paterson, J., Üșenmez, E. (eds.). 3 edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 81-131, 50 pages
Risk Allocation in Oil and Gas Service Contracts
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trend. Gordon, G., Paterson, J., Usenmenz, E. (eds.). 3 edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 175-234, 50 pages
The UK's Energy Security
Gordon, G. W., Usenmez, E., Cowie, J.
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends. Gordon, G., Paterson, J., Üșenmez, E. (eds.). 3 edition, pp. 42-77, 36 pages
The Wood Review and Maximising Economic Recovery Upon the UKCS
Gordon, G. W., Paterson, J. B., Vass, U.
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Issues and Emerging Trends: Volume I: Research Management and Regulatory Law
Gordon, G. W., Paterson, J. B., Usenmez, E.
Vol. 1, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 600 pages
Books and Reports: Books
UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Issues and Emerging Trends: Volume II: Commercial and Contract Law Issues
A Song of Fire and Ice: A J Allan (Blairnyle) Limited & Anor v Strathclyde Fire Board
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 122-127
Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2017.0396
The Exclusion of Consequential Loss in the Piper Alpha Case: A Study of Lord Rodger's Method of Textual Analysis
Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law. Simpson, A. R., Styles, S. C., West, E., Wilson, A. L. (eds.). Aberdeen University Press, pp. 434-465, 32 pages
[ONLINE] http://www.store.abdn.ac.uk/product-catalogue/publications/aberdeen-university-press/continuity-change-and-pragmatism-in-the-law-essays-in-memory-of-professor-angelo-forte
Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law
Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
Energy Law in the United Kingdon
Gordon, G., McHarg, A., Paterson, J.
Energy Law in Europe. Roggenkamp, M., Redgwell, C., Ronne, A., Del Guayo, I. (eds.). OUP Oxford, pp. 1053-1136, 83 pages
"...And Injustice for All": First Thoughts on Secondary Victims Following Young v MacVean
Community Licence and Shale Gas in the UK
Energy Policy Conference 2013. Robert Gordon University, pp. 64-80, 16 pages
[ONLINE] https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/1685
An Energy and Natural Resources Court for Scotland?
Gordon, G. W., Campbell, L., Plaxton, M. C.
Business Law in Scotland. Black, G. (ed.). 3 edition. W Green, 38 pages
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