Education
B.A., University of Kansas, 2009
B.S., University of Kansas, 2009
M.B.A., University of Kansas, 2013
J.D., University of Kansas, 2013
Research Interests
- Oil and Gas Law
- Property in Natural Resources
About
Professor Joe Schremmer holds the Eugene Kuntz Chair of Law in Oil, Gas, & Natural Resources. He teaches courses on oil and gas, energy, natural resources, and first-year property and contract law. His scholarly work focuses on property rights in natural resources, especially subsurface natural resources. Schremmer's recent articles examine correlative rights, waste, subsurface trespass, property in pore space, and issues involving split estates. As of 2024, he is the sole update and revision author of Kuntz, A Treatise on the Law of Oil and Gas (Matthew Bender), and he co-authors The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press). Schremmer is also the faculty director of the College of Law's Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Center and the Energy and Natural Resources Graduate Program.
Before joining OU Law in 2023, Schremmer was the Judge Leon Karelitz Oil and Gas Law Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Before that, he practiced law in Wichita, Kansas for six years, where he was recognized multiple times as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers. His practice involved most aspects of upstream oil and gas production, including title examination, transactional work, practice before the state conservation commission, and civil litigation. In law school, Schremmer served as the editor-in-chief of the Kansas Law Review and received the Samuel Mellinger Award recognizing the top overall graduate in the areas of scholarship, leadership, and service.
Additional Information
J.D.:
- Contracts 5114
- Oil and Gas 6540
- Oil and Gas Contracts 6550
- Property 5234
Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, Trustee
Institute for Energy Law at the Center for American and International Law, Advisory Board
Energy and Mineral Law Foundation
Kansas Bar
Professor Schremmer's Scholarship
Reflections on the "Pore Space Estate," 10 ONE J 727 (2025).
Subsurface Trespass in the Restatement (Fourth) of Property: An Appraisal and Alternative Account, 77 Alabama L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025).
Conflicts and Confluences between Surface and Mineral Estates with CCUS, 24 Wyo. L. Rev. 295 (2024).
The Potential for Conflicts between CCS Projects and Mineral Extraction, 12 LSU J. of Energy Law & Resources 389 (2024).
Subsurface Property Issues in Recent Litigation, 60 Found. J. for Natural Resources & Energy L. 335 (2024).
The Concurrent Use of Land for Carbon Sequestration and Mineral Development, 75 Baylor L. Rev. 630 (2023).
Ad Coelum and the Design of Property Rights, 9 Tex. A&M J. Prop. L. 707 (2023).
Subsurface Trespass: Private Remedies and Public Regulation, 101 Neb. L. Rev. 1005 (2023).
A Unifying Doctrine of Subsurface Property Rights, 46 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 525 (2022).
Waste and the Governance of Private and Public Property, 93 U. Colo. L. Rev. 609 (2022) (with Tara K. Righetti).
Pore Space Property, 2021 Utah L. Rev. 1 (2021).
Regulating Natural Gas Venting and Flaring as Waste: A Review of the New Mexico Approach, 20 Oil Gas & Energy L. Intelligence 1 (2021).
Join with Me Won’t You: Civic Engagement, COVID-19, and the Millennial Generation of Law Professors, 69 J. Legal Educ. 689 (2020).
Crystal Gazing: Foretelling the Next Decade in Oil and Gas Law, 66 Rocky Mountain Mineral L. Institute 5-1 (2020).
Getting Past Possession: Subsurface Property Disputes as Nuisances, 95 Wash. L. Rev. 315 (2020).
Imputing Regulatory Failures in Oil and Gas Licensing: A Discussion and Proposal, 57 Washburn L.J. 265 (2018) (with Charles C. Steincamp).
Private Enforcement of the Kansas Wage Payment Act, 62 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1227 (2014) (with Sean M. McGivern).
Avoidable Fraccident: An Argument Against Strict Liability for Hydraulic Fracturing, 60 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1215 (June 2012).
Advanced Introduction to U.S. Oil and Gas Law (Edward Elgar Pub. forthcoming).
Kuntz, A Treatise on the Law of Oil and Gas (Matthew Bender) (as of 2024).
Patrick H. Martin, Bruce M. Kramer, Keith B. Hall, Tara K. Righetti, and Joseph A. Schremmer, The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials (11th ed. Foundation Press 2021).