Ann Carlson, professor of environmental law and the inaugural faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, has given a series of lectures in Berlin and Frankfurt at the invitation of the U.S. State Department and its embassy in Berlin, Germany. The lectures focused on U.S. climate and energy policies and the regulation of the transportation sector in light of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Her audience included faculty members of the Technical University of Darmstadt Energy Center, the foundation arm of the Christian Democratic Party, the Ecologic Institute and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies. She also participated in a press roundtable with reporters from Der Spiegel and Taz, two of Germany’s leading news outlets.
An award-winning educator, author and speaker, Carlson is one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy. At UCLA, she has received the University’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as the law school's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Last October, the U.S. Embassy in Russia invited Carlson to Moscow and Barnaul, Siberia. She spoke about California climate policy to a group of leading environmental economists and leaders of nongovernmental organizations at the U.S. Embassy, and attended a reception at home of the U.S. ambassador to Russia.
