Professor Peter D Cameron, LLB (Hons), PhD FCIArb

Profile

Peter holds the Chair in Energy and Climate Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies on the Lincoln’s Inn Fields campus at Queen Mary University of London. He teaches Renewable Energy Law and Contracts as well as Mining Law and Natural Resources.

He has held various academic posts at the European University Institute, the University of Leiden, Dundee (Scotland) and, as visiting academic, the National University of Singapore, Stanford Law School, the Oxford Centre for Soco-Legal Studies, and the University of Madrid (Autonoma).

Peter is qualified as a barrister (England & Wales, Middle Temple), and has acted as arbitrator in international disputes under ICSID and ICC rules. He has also provided expert witness testimony in arbitrations and national courts, and been consultant to the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank and various United Nations agencies.

Peter was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh as Fellow in 2013.

Postgraduate Teaching

• SOLM167 Renewable Energy Law and Contracts (Convenor)
• SOLM166 Mining Law and Natural Resources (Convenor)

Research

Research Interests:

Peter’s main research interest is in the nexus of international arbitration and the energy transition. He is completing a book-length publication on this subject, to be published in early 2026 by Hart.

Funded research

Peter has obtained grants from the European Commission, The World Bank, the FCDO/DfID and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Works in progress

Peter’s main work in progress is the book on international arbitration and the energy transition. Peter is the Vice President of the European Federation of Energy Law Associations, and is organising a workshop in Brussels on their behalf addressing green hydrogen (June 2025).

Conference papers

Peter recently (January 2025) participated in a panel at the 12th International Energy Arbitration conference in Houston, Texas, on stabilisation of contracts.

Publications

• “International Arbitration and the Energy Transition” [2026] Peter D. Cameron, Hart Publishing (forthcoming).
• ‘International Dispute Resolution and the Energy Transition Rollercoaster’ [2025] Peter D. Cameron, in Kopar, R. and Roeben, V., (eds), “International Investment Law and the Energy Transition”, Hart, pages 97-128.
• ‘New Types of Energy Disputes: in the Era of Low Carbon Transition’ [2023], Peter D. Cameron, in Cavinder Bull, Loretta Malintoppi and Constantine Partasides (eds.), Wolters Kluwer, ICCA Congress Series No. 21, pages 737-748.
• ‘International Arbitration and Energy Disputes’ [2022] Peter D. Cameron, in 3 Global Energy Law and Sustainability, pages 1-17.
• “International Energy Investment Law: the Pursuit of Stability” [2021] (second edition), Oxford University Press, 851 pages.
• ‘Stabilization Clauses: Do They Have a Future?’ [2020] 7 Bahrain International Arbitration Review, no.1, pages 109-131.
• ‘Mediating International Energy Disputes’ [2019], Peter D. Cameron and Abba Kolo, in Titi, C. and Fach Gomez, K. (eds.), “Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes”, Oxford University Press, pages 239-258.
• “The Global Energy Transition: Law, Policy and Economics for Energy in the 21st Century” [2020], Peter D. Cameron, Xiaoyi Mu and Volker Roeben (eds.), Hart, 358 pages.
• “Oil, Gas and Mining: A Source Book for Understanding the Extractive Industries” [2017] Peter D. Cameron and Michael C. Stanley, The World Bank, 298 pages.
• “Legal Aspects of EU Energy Law” [2016] (second edition), Peter D. Cameron, and Raphael Heffron, (eds.), Oxford University Press, 832 pages.
• “Competition in Energy Markets: Law and Regulation in the European Union” [2007] Peter D. Cameron (2nd edition), Oxford University Press, 708 pages.

Supervision

Peter has supervised many postgraduate students successfully to completion. He is currently accepting only the highest quality applications, relevant to his research interests, for possible PhD supervision.

Public Engagement

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
• Editor, Global Energy Law and Sustainability (2022-2024).
• Co-editor of Book series, Global Energy Law & Policy (Hart)