Christopher Kulander

Professor Christopher Kulander teaches energy-related courses at the University of Texas School of Law and is an academic co-director of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy Law & Business, a think tank that encompasses the colleges of Business, Engineering, Geology, and Law. He is also Of Counsel for Oliva Gibbs, LLP. He has taught Domestic Energy Law, Property, Mining Law, and beginning and advanced Oil & Gas Law courses. In addition, he teaches International Energy Law at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, as International Lecturer. He is an editor on the Białostockie Studia Prawnicze [Legal Studies Journal of Bialystok, Poland] and served as a Fulbright scholar in Lithuania in 2019. He is licensed in Texas and New Mexico.

Professor Kulander has published over twenty five law review articles, as well as many other articles with a more practical focus in the industry literature, on diverse topics including energy lending, finance, oil & gas law, land use control, American Indian law, as well as on geology, and petroleum seismology. He received his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma, where he was managing editor for the Oklahoma Bar Mineral Law Newsletter and note editor and assisting managing editor for the American Indian Law Review. Before teaching, Professor Kulander practiced for four years in the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, focusing on energy lending, finance, and bankruptcy. Prior to that, he practiced for two years with Cotton & Bledsoe in Midland, Texas, focusing on oil and gas title, leasing, and litigation support.

Before law school, he received his B.S. in geology and M.S. in geophysics from Wright State in Dayton, Ohio, and his Ph.D. in geophysics (petroleum seismology) from Texas A&M University, after which he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey as a geophysicist.

In his spare time, he enjoys board gaming, bad movies, studying European and American history, road trips, Appalachian geology, and music from the '70s.