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The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (RMMLF) is a collaborative, educational nonprofit organization dedicated to the scholarly and practical study of the law and regulations relating to mining, oil and gas, energy, water, public lands, and related areas. The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors and guided by a Trustees Council that includes representatives from constituent law schools,〔E.g., Washburn University School of Law, Student Organizations, http://washburnlaw.edu/students/organizations/〕 bar associations, and mining and oil and gas associations.〔''See'' Denver University, Sturm College of Law website, http://www.law.du.edu/index.php/enrgp/research-sources〕 Leading legal, land, and other experts work as volunteers to the Foundation and its committees. Through educational programs, the Foundation brings together lawyers, landmen, managers, government personnel, law faculty, students, and others involved in mineral, oil & gas, water, and other resources. ==History== The Foundation was organized in 1955 to provide broad educational coverage over a wide geographic area to many practitioners and mineral company personnel who were interested in a field of law in which only a few were expert, and to avoid duplication of effort among the law schools and industry organizations interested in the problems of the rapidly developing mineral industry, particularly the oil and gas industry in the Rocky Mountain area. The first institute brought mineral resources lawyers together to hear experts talk on significant and timely subjects. The papers from the conference provided permanent reference material, which was made available by publication of the Proceedings of the First Annual Institute. The Foundation has continued to be a meeting place and focal point for lawyers and others whose work brings them into contact with the legal aspects mining, oil and gas, energy, water, public lands, and related areas. When the decline of the oil and gas industry occurred in the Rocky Mountain area in the early 1960s, it was accompanied by increased activity in "hard rock" minerals. Commencing around 1965, the Foundation gave increasing attention to mining law and to expansion into water law, as well as expanding geographically into new areas of the west. This policy was put into effect in 1967 by adding to the Annual Institutes a section for water lawyers, an innovation that has continued to the present time. The geographic expansion might be considered as beginning with the 14th Annual Institute at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1968, which also inaugurated a Landman's Section that has since been a regular feature of the Annual Institute.〔Victor H. Verity, "A Mini-View of the Past 25 Years," 25 ''Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst.'' at xxxi (1979).〕 The Foundation began a new era with the appointment of David P. Phillips as Executive Director in December 1970. The regions served have gradually expanded past the Rocky Mountains under the direction of Mr. Phillips, first to Canada and Mexico and then later to South America.〔John C. Lacy, "The Second Twenty-Five Years, A History of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 1979-2004," 50 ''Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst.'' at xix (2004).〕 The Foundation today is a tribute to the foresight of its founders, who created a structure with a balance that has accommodated diverse opinions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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