Jacqueline Lang Weaver
Professor of Law, Emerita
Jacqueline L. Weaver has teaching and research interests that include oil and gas law, energy law and policy, international petroleum transactions, and environmental and natural resources law. She has lectured or taught LL.M. courses on topics in international oil and gas transactions in Africa (Uganda, Namibia, and Luanda), Kazakhstan and India (as a Fulbright scholar), Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Bangkok. She is a co-author of the three-volume treatise titled Smith and Weaver, The Texas Law of Oil and Gas; a treatise titled International Petroleum Law and Transactions (2020 with updates); a casebook titled Energy, Economics and the Environment (several editions); and the treatise International Petroleum Exploration & Exploitation Agreements (2009). She has written articles on offshore safety after the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, energy markets, sustainable development in the international petroleum industry, comparative unitization laws, energy policy, and traditional oil and gas law topics. Professor Weaver holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a J.D. degree from the University of Houston. She worked as an economist in the Corporate Planning Department of Exxon Co. USA before joining the University of Houston Law Center.
