John Paterson is Professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen and a founder member of its Centre for Energy Law. He has worked on a range of international research, teaching, training, and consultancy projects in energy law and has published widely on a range of topics in the field. He has also published in the field of corporate governance and delivered
specialist training on this topic. 

He is co-editor of UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends, published in two volumes by Edinburgh University Press, the fourth edition of which is now in preparation. He was recently a visiting professor at the National
University of Singapore, teaching International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law. 

He coordinates Aberdeen’s contribution to the Advanced Master’s in Energy Law under the North Sea Energy Law Partnership (with the Universities of Copenhagen, Groningen and Oslo). 

Recent publications include: 

• Offshore Wind Leasing in the UK, in Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Tina Soliman Hunter (eds) Offshore Wind Licensing, Edward Elgar, (forthcoming); Third-party Access to Energy Infrastructure, in Eduardo Pereira, Kim Talus and Reg Fowler (eds), Encyclopaedia of Midstream and Downstream Oil and Gas (2nd Ed) (2023); Energy Law and Energy Transformation, in Fleming et al (eds) A Force of Energy:
• Essays in Energy Law in Honour of Professor Martha Roggenkamp, University of Groningen Press (2022); (with Thomas Muinzer) 
• The law of climate change and energy in the United Kingdom, in José Francisco García and Lorenzo Mellado Ruiz (eds) Estudios Sobre Cambio Climático y Transición Energética, Marcel Pons, 2022 (in Spanish).