Global Energy Governance – Problems, Pathways, and Next Steps
Hosted by the Academic Outreach Committee
December 4, 2025
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
IEL: +1.972.244.3422
E-Mail: iel@cailaw.org
Overview
Energy is at the heart of many of today’s most pressing problems. Whether it is energy demand growth from data centers, decarbonization of energy systems to mitigate climate change, or energy security to protect national energy systems against geostrategic vulnerabilities, one cannot avoid the topic. This webinar will explore the extent to which realizing any energy outcomes requires global cooperation. It will discuss the pitfalls of relying on energy cooperation in the current moment in time. It will address what tools we have available to de-risk global energy cooperation including importantly international dispute resolution mechanisms to give partners confidence in the bargains they have struck. It will explore what can be done to strengthen them to make national and global energy systems more affordable, reliable, resilient, and sustainable.
This webinar is free for everyone.
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers
Abby Cohen Smutny
White & Case LLP
Washington, D.C.
Abby Cohen Smutny is the Global Co-Head of White & Case's award winning International Arbitration Practice. Ms. Smutny's experience includes banking, financial services, oil & gas, mining, electric power, real estate development, water supply, retail, pharmaceuticals, construction, tobacco, railroads, telecommunications and manufacturing.
She has significant experience managing claims arising out of project financing, privatizations, natural resource concessions, contracts with States and state-entities and political risk insurance.
Frédéric G. Sourgens
James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law
Tulane University Law School
New Orleans, LA
Frédéric Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law. He regularly speaks and publishes on international energy law, international dispute resolution and transnational law issues. Freddy is the co-lead investigator of the energy transition policy and regulatory briefs project for the Organization of Petroleum Producing States (OPEC), the Chair of the Southwest Institute for International and Comparative Law.
MCLE Credit
Texas Course Number 174302088. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours, of which no credit hours will apply to ethics/professional responsibility credit.
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