Ann Carlson, UCLA professor of law, has been selected by UC President Janet Napolitano to serve as an inaugural member of the University of California Global Climate Leadership Council. Carlson is one of five professors chosen, and the only UCLA professor appointed, to help assure the successful implementation of UC’s plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025.
Carlson, one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy, is the Shirley Shapiro professor of environmental law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.She is co-author, with Daniel Farber and Jody Freeman, of a leading casebook, "Environmental Law" (8th ed.). She is currently serving on an American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel studying the future of America’s energy systems. Carlson is also a frequent commentator and speaker on environmental issues, particularly on climate change.
Carlson teaches Property, Environmental Law, Climate Change Law and Policy and a Climate and Energy Lawworkshop at the UCLA School of Law. She was the 2011 recipient of the university’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, the 2011 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, and the law school's 2006 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Carlson served as the law school’s academic associate dean from 2004-2006, and is currently vice dean for faculty recruitment and intellectual life.
