Biography

Howard Williams, with over forty years of service on the Stanford Law School faculty, has had a long and distinguished career as one of the nation’s leading experts in oil and gas law, and the licensing and regulation of the use of other natural resources. He is the author of a number of essential books on the subject, most notably the treatise Oil and Gas Law and the casebook Cases on Oil and Gas Law, written with late law school dean Charles J. Meyers. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1963, he was a professor of law at Columbia Law School and the University of Texas School of Law, and served in the U.S. Army in Europe from 1940-46, where he began as a private and rose to the rank of major.

Publications & Cases

• Howard R. Williams and Charles J. Meyers, Manual of Oil and Gas Terms, 9th ed. New York: Matthew Bender, 1994.
• Howard R. Williams, Cases and Materials on the Law of Oil and Gas, 5th edition, Mineola, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 1987.