UCLA’s Ann Carlson presented the Lloyd Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law last month. She spoke on "Pollution Hot Spots and the Clean Air Act," offering analysis of the act and efforts to accurately measure pollutants.
As faculty at UCLA’s School of Law, Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and the inaugural faculty director of the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She is also affiliated with the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
A leading scholar of climate change law and policy, two of Carlson’s articles, “Iterative Federalism” and “Climate Change and Takings on the Ground,” have been ranked by the Land Use and Environmental Law Review among the top five environmental articles of the year, and her work has been published in leading journals including the UCLA, California, Northwestern and Michigan law reviews. She is co-author of a leading casebook, “Environmental Law.”
Recently, Carlson served on a National Academy of Sciences panel, “America’s Climate Choices: Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change,” and 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 law workshop. She was the 2011 recipient of UCLA Academic Senate's Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as the 2006 recipient of the law School's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Lloyd Garrison, the namesake of the lecture and former dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, won a landmark environmental law decision in 1965 to preserve Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. This victory for the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference inaugurated what is recognized today as the field of environmental law.
