• As an appointee to the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and Emmett Institute Faculty Co-Director Ann Carlson considered and weighed in on several important issues for California's cap-and-trade program: overlapping policies, environmental justice, leakage, offsets, managing allowance supply, and price ceilings.

• As project lead for the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force, Professor of Law William Boyd guided the group's collaboration with California Air Resources Board in developing a Tropical Forest Standard, which the agency recently voted to endorse.

• Professor of Law Timothy Malloy published a report, in coordination with researchers from UCLA and USC, finding that California's county agricultural commissioners are issuing permits for pesticide use without considering safer alternatives, as required by law. Senior officials in Governor Newsom’s administration responded to the report launch by reaching out to Malloy and other partners on the project to discuss potential reforms to the pesticide regulation process in California.

• At our spring symposium on California’s environmental leadership, more than 200 guests gathered to discuss California's status and future as an environmental pioneer, including successes and challenges faced during Governor Jerry Brown's tenure in office and environmental leadership opportunities with Governor Newsom now at the helm. CARB Chair Mary Nichols delivered a keynote address. 

• Under Parson's leadership, the Emmett Institute partnered with the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative, the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program, and the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative to host the Sixth International Geoengineering Governance Summer School in Banff, Canada. The project brought together an international group of leading experts with post-graduate students, early-career researchers, and professionals seeking to develop expertise in the field. It facilitated intensive, collaborative explorations of the societal, political, governance, and ethical aspects of geoengineering.

• Also this summer, Parson briefed the leadership and senior scientific staff of Environment and Climate Change Canada on the likely increase of attention to geoengineering in climate response, and potential ways for Canada to contribute to associated research and consultations to develop responsible governance.

• In summer 2019, the project added two new Emmett Climate Engineering Fellows, Holly Jean Buck and Charles Corbett. In October 2019, Buck published a new book, After Geoengineering. The new fellows join Emmett/Frankel Fellow Jesse Reynolds, who published a new book in May 2019, The Governance of Solar Geoengineering.

• In 2019, Boyd organized and led several meetings for the task force, including the annual GCF meeting in Colombia this spring. At the event, President of Colombia Iván Duque Márquez highlighted the importance of the network in the global fight against deforestation, and nine governors from the Amazon basin in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia pledged to continue collaboration on transboundary efforts to protect the Amazon region. In June, Boyd hosted a workshop at UCLA Law with the Governor of West Papua and Indonesia forest experts to discuss implementation challenges and opportunities associated with the province's sustainable development and forest conservation commitments. 

• 2019 also saw a heated debate in California over the state’s proposed Tropical Forest Standard, a set of a set of performance benchmarks for what a high-quality state or provincial approach to reducing deforestation should aim for. The proposed standard was the result of more than a decade of collaboration between California and the GCF. Ahead of CARB’s eventual vote endorsing the standard in September 2019, Boyd published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times explaining the potential benefits of the standard. 

• On our Legal Planet blog this year, Boyd wrote that reducing deforestation “may be the hardest and most important part of the climate change challenge,” and described what officials in states and provinces need to protect tropical forests. 

• Supervising Attorney and Project Director Julia Stein, Emmett Institute Co-Executive Director Sean Hecht, Cara Horowitz, Ann Carlson, and Shirley Shapiro Fellow Meredith Hankins submitted comments last fall on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's joint proposal to freeze federal fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks at model year 2020 levels and to revoke the waiver for the California Advanced Clean Cars program and Zero-Emission Vehicle requirements granted to California in 2013. The comment letter urged withdrawal of the proposed rule and advocated for EPA to leave California’s waiver intact.  

• In an issue brief for the American Constitution Society, Carlson, Hankins, and Stein reviewed the historical and legal framework for the decades-long collaboration between California and the EPA on vehicle emissions standards. The authors argued that the Trump administration's proposal to revoke California's waiver is likely to be overturned in court.

• When the Trump administration ultimately moved to revoke California’s Clean Air Act waiver on vehicle emissions, Carlson and Stein helped shape public understanding of the action, using blog posts and media interviews to argue the action was on a weak legal footing. Carlson wrote blog posts analyzing the proposal and Trump’s tweets, and was interviewed on KCRW, KQED, and KPCC, and cited in NPR’s All Things Considered. Carlson was also quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, and the Washington Post. Stein published a blog post on the American Constitution Society’s Expert Forum and was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, and Mother Jones.

• Stein spoke on a webinar in September 2019 with experts from Oregon Law and the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law to address law and policy questions on these issues.

• With support from Emmett/Frankel Fellow Siyi Shen, Wang is launching a series of research projects that aim to develop lessons for both U.S. and Chinese environmental regulators. The first of these projects will examine the co-control of traditional pollutants and greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act and California state law, with a focus on adopting useful practices for China.  

• Wang leads UCLA's engagement with the California-China Climate Institute, announced in September 2019. UCLA is partnering with other University of California campuses, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, and China’s top climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, to spur further climate action through joint research, training, and dialogue.

• This September, Wang organized a two-week study tour in Los Angeles and North Carolina for a high-level delegation from China’s Ministry of Ecology & Environment to assist Chinese experts in their development of a more robust pollution permitting system.

• Led by Julia Stein and Professor of Law Jonathan Zasloff, the clinic exposes students to the inner workings of the California Legislature (and Sacramento in general) and to the unique role attorneys can play in the lawmaking and policy process.

• The course provides students with practical skills and experience in researching, drafting, and pursuing adoption of California environmental legislative and regulatory changes.

• Students in the clinic work with elected state officials and their staffs to identify and refine policy objectives focused on environmental conservation, climate change, housing and land use, water, and other environmental goals. Students also interact with appointed state officials, lobbyists, and other public affairs professionals. 

• The new clinic adds to the offerings of the Frank G. Wells Clinic in Environmental Law, which for more than 25 years has trained UCLA Law students through hands-on experience practicing environmental law on behalf of environmental and community groups on litigation and regulatory matters.

• In a December 2018 Pritzker Brief, Ensuring Safe Drinking Water In Los Angeles County’s Small Water Systems, Emmett/Frankel Fellow Nathaniel Logar, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law James Salzman, and Cara Horowitz assessed obstacles for L.A. County's small water systems in providing safe and affordable drinking water to customers. Small water systems reach more than 250,000 L.A. County residents and these systems face challenges from contaminated groundwater sources and underfunding.

• In an op-ed for CALMatters, Logar applauded Governor Newsom's early focus on financial challenges facing small water systems across the state.

• This fall, Salzman published an open-access, 20-page primer on the Safe Drinking Water Act covering the history of the law, its key provisions, successes, and challenges. The primer is intended for inclusion in courses and for practitioners who want a user-friendly text. 

• Salzman also spoke with Consumer Reports for their November 2019 cover story on the safety of bottled water in the U.S.

• The Emmett Institute hosted a daylong conference in July 2019 at UCLA Law for more than 150 participants examining the insurance industry's role in addressing climate risks. The event was convened by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in partnership with the UN's Principles for Sustainable Insurance and Berkeley Law's Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment.

• At the event, Commissioner Lara and the UN Environment's Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative announced that they will collaborate in developing new guidelines for the insurance industry to respond to climate risks in California, such as wildfires and coastal flooding.

• Sean Hecht helped organize the conference and took other opportunities to address issues of climate risk and insurance throughout the year, including moderating a plenary session at the North American Carbon World 2019 conference and speaking at a September 2019 meeting of the California Coastal Commission in Newport Beach, CA.

• Holly Jean Buck join us as an Emmett Climate Engineering Fellow with a joint appointment between the Emmett Institute and the UCLA Institute on the Environment and Sustainability. Buck was previously a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA IoES and holds a doctorate in Development Sociology from Cornell University and a MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University, Sweden.

• Charles Corbett joins us as an Emmett Climate Engineering Fellow. Corbett is a 2019 graduate of Harvard Law School.

• Siyi Shen joins us an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy. Shen earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law and LL.M. degrees from Berkeley Law and Pace Law School. Shen's fellowship will focus on work involving China. 

• UCLA Law alumnus Benjamin Harris joins us as a Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy. Harris was previously a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Stephen V. Wilson in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California.

• Sean Hecht, Harjot Kaur, and Nathaniel Logar, together with a cross-disciplinary team at UCLA and external project consultants, assisted Los Angeles County in creating its first-ever sustainability plan. The plan, recently adopted by the LA County Board of Supervisors, addresses water and energy use, equity, transportation, housing, biodiversity, and more, and includes the high-level goal of a “fossil-fuel free L.A. County.”

• Our faculty are also deeply engaged in the Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge, a UCLA initiative to assist the region in reaching 100 percent water independence, 100 percent renewable energy, and enhanced ecosystem health by 2050. Cara Horowitz co-chairs the faculty steering committee. Ann Carlson, William Boyd, and Tim Malloy have all received research funding from the initiative to consider law and policy questions related to the transformation of our region’s electricity sector.

• 2019 blog posts from Emmett Institute faculty covered a huge range of topics, including deforestation, pesticide regulation, drinking water, and the nomenclature of electric scooters.

• Legal Planet has more than 2,500 subscribers and is an important resources for academics, students, reporters, advocates, and others seeking expert views on issues in climate and environmental law.

• New York Times reporter Brad Plumer told UCLA Law Magazine last year, "I check Legal Planet constantly. Climate policy and law has become hugely important, but it can also get quite complicated. Legal Planet does a great job of breaking down the issues in a clear and insightful way."

• In November 2019, the Legal Planet site was re-launched with improved navigation and other features for our readers.

• Cara Horowitz, Ann Carlson, William Boyd, and Nathaniel Logar submitted a comment letter on behalf of experts on the operations of the U.S. electric grid, strongly opposing EPA's proposal to promulgate the Affordable Clean Energy Rule in place of the Clean Power Plan. 

• Sean Hecht separately submitted a comment letter on behalf of experts in technology innovation, diffusion, and pollution control, arguing that EPA’s proposal to weaken pollution standards for new and modified coal-fired power plants under Section 111(b) of the Clean Air Act violates federal law, and that the prior standard is the proper one. 

• Horowitz, Carlson, Boyd, and Logar also submitted a comment letter on the Section 111(b) rule, on behalf of experts in the operations of the U.S. electricity grid, opposing EPA’s proposal to weaken these pollution standards.

• In a comment letter, Cara Horowitz, Nathaniel Logar, and Columbia Law's Michael Burger critiqued a recent Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Pebble Mine, proposed for the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay.

• Julia Stein, Horowitz, and Harjot Kaur submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Energy, arguing the agency's efforts to narrow the reach of lightbulb efficiency standards would sacrifice consumer savings and environmental protection in direct contravention of legislative mandates pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. 

• Ann Carlson was interviewed by 60 Minutes for a feature story on the case, and also spoke with the New Yorker, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Vox, and other outlets covering the lawsuit. Sean Hecht spoke to the New York Times, reacting to the June 2019 hearings in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Before oral arguments in the case were heard in June, the Emmett Institute hosted a special Earth Day event at UCLA with Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel with Our Children's Trust and the lead attorney for the youth plaintiffs. Ann Carlson moderated the discussion. 

• Co-edited Lessons from the Clean Air Act, a new book with Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, examining lessons from the landmark environmental law for future climate and energy policymaking in the U.S. at the federal and state levels. The book was the subject of a daylong event in Washington D.C. hosted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Resources for the Future.

• Made high-profile media appearances to explain lawsuits filed by cities and states against fossil-fuel companies for climate damages, including interviews with the New York Times, Bloomberg, U.S. News & World Report, and Meet the Press Daily, and an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times.

• Joined Hawaii's U.S. Senators Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz, and state representatives, advocates, and academics in Honolulu to discuss legal strategies for the state to respond to global warming impacts.

• Moderated a special Earth Day 2019 event at UCLA with Julia Olson, lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States. Carlson discussed the lawsuit in an interview for 60 Minutes.

• Continued service on California's Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee, tasked with reviewing the performance of the state's cap-and-trade system and other relevant environmental programs, and contributed to the committee's first annual report.

• Delivered the Frizzell Series Keynote Address at the University of Chicago on the Green New Deal and environmental law.

• Recognized for one of the top five articles in environmental law in 2018 by Land Use and Environmental Law Review, for The Clean Air Act’s Blind Spot: Microclimates and Hotspot Pollution, published in UCLA Law Review in July 2018.

• With William Boyd and Dan Farber, published a new edition of their casebook on environmental law, Cases and Materials on Environmental Law, 10th Edition.

• Continued leadership of the Governors Climate and Forests Task Force, a partnership of 38 states and provinces from 10 countries committed to protecting tropical forests, reducing emissions from deforestation, and promoting realistic pathways to forest-maintaining rural development.

• Organized and led the annual GCF meeting in Colombia with participation from the President of Colombia and nine governors. At the event, President of Colombia Iván Duque Márquez highlighted the importance of the network in the global fight against deforestation and nine governors from the Amazon basin in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia pledged to continue collaboration on transboundary efforts to protect the Amazon region.

• Published a chapter on national ambient air quality standards in a new book co-edited by Ann Carlson and Dallas Burtraw, Lessons from the Clean Air Act. The chapter describes the durability and flexibility of the program's design and implementation.

• Published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times urging California Air Resources Board to endorse the California Tropical Forest Standard and participated in a CARB hearing in Sacramento. The board voted to endorse the standard.

• Hosted a workshop at UCLA Law with the Governor of West Papua and Indonesia forest experts to discuss implementation challenges and opportunities associated with the Manokwari Declaration, which committed Papua and West Papua provinces to prioritizing sustainable development in indigenous territories while conserving 70 percent of the forest cover on the Western half of the island of Papua.

• With Ann Carlson and Dan Farber, published a new edition of their casebook on environmental law, Cases and Materials on Environmental Law, 10th Edition.

• Published a report with researchers from UCLA and USC, finding that California's county agricultural commissioners are issuing permits for pesticide use without considering safer alternatives. Commissioners are also not evaluating the health implications of “cumulative exposure,” which occurs when growers apply two or more pesticides to the same or adjacent fields. The report earned coverage in California across a range of local media, including Capital Public Radio, KQED, The Bakersfield Californian, Ventura County Star, Salinas Californian, Monterey Herald, Civil Eats, and more.

• Received funding for a multi-campus UC project focused on developing a research roadmap for large-scale battery storage for renewable energy in California. Malloy will host a workshop at UCLA Law in 2020 to consider legislative and administrative policy-making processes to support new technologies.

• Published a chapter in the Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems, a book identifying governance strategies that could help organizations and governments respond to systemic risks and future threats from nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and other emerging technologies.

• Presented as a featured speaker at the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology, on the topic of “Mind the Gap: Aligning Risk Governance and Innovation.”

• Continued leadership of a multi-year project on the governance of climate engineering technologies, overseeing the work of three fellows: Holly Buck, Charles Corbett, and Jesse Reynolds.

• Organized and directed the Sixth International Summer School on Geoengineering Governance in Banff, Canada. Co-sponsored by the Emmett Institute and four partner organizations, the Summer School brought together 60 participants – including leading researchers as well as post-graduate students, early-career researchers, and professionals from more than a dozen countries – for five days of intensive, collaborative exploration of the societal, political, governance, and ethical aspects of geoengineering.

• Briefed the leadership and senior scientific staff of Environment and Climate Change Canada on the likely increase of attention to geoengineering in climate response, and potential ways for Canada to contribute to associated research and consultations to develop responsible governance.

• Participated in an Intelligence Squared debate in New York City on the role of geoengineering in mitigating climate change with scholars from Charles Sturt University, Oxford University, and Harvard University.

• Published a third edition of his book on global warming with Andrew Dessler, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate.

• Co-edited a new book, Green Growth That Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms from Around the World. Co-edited with ecologists Gretchen Daily and Lisa Mandle from Stanford, and Zhiyung Ouyang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the book provides a practical guide to international policies and finance mechanisms designed to secure both development and enhanced natural capital.

• With J.B. Ruhl, surveyed environmental law practitioners and academics about which cases have been most important to the field. The results were published in Environmental Forum as a follow up to similar polls published in 2001 and 2009. 

• Created a symposium for AJIL Unbound on climate change localism, examining the response of subnational actors to the Trump administration's announcement that it would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. 

• Delivered the 2019 Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy at the University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law, on the topic of the past and future of drinking water; and gave the Foreman Lecture on Biodiversity at Stetson College of Law on the same topic. 

• Recognized for one of the top five articles in environmental law in 2018 by Land Use and Environmental Law Review for his article with Jonathan Nash and J.B. Ruhl, Do Agency Budgets Matter?, published in Minnesota Law Review.

• Appointed expert member to a United Kingdom government task force to transform agricultural subsidies following Brexit toward a “Public Goods for Public Money” strategy.

• Published an open access, 20-page primer on the Safe Drinking Water Act covering the history of the law, its key provisions, successes, and challenges. The primer is intended for inclusion in educational courses and for practitioners who want a user-friendly text. 

• Hosted a two-day workshop for works-in-progress in environmental law at the Bren School of Environment at UC Santa Barbara, where Salzman has a joint appointment.

• Led UCLA's participation in the California-China Climate Institute, a partnership with other University of California campuses, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, and China’s top climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, to spur further climate action through joint research, training, and dialogue.

• Organized a study tour in Los Angeles and North Carolina for a high-level delegation from China’s Ministry of Ecology & Environment to assist Chinese experts in their development of a more robust pollution permitting system.

• Delivered a keynote address at the China, Sustainable Development and Economic Policy-Making conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, addressing experts in law, economics, science, and policy on the relationship between sustainability and economic development in China.

• Trained environmental judges in China, with sessions in Chongqing and at the National Judges College in Beijing, including remarks on the enforcement of environmental permits in the U.S.

• Contributed a section on China's Belt and Road Initiative to a new report from WWF and The Nature Conservancy on protecting free-flowing rivers as renewable energy systems expand worldwide.

• Organized and moderated public lectures at UCLA Law with Chinadialogue founder Isabel Hilton and NRDC attorney Barbara Finamore, each with more than 150 guests in attendance, covering current issues in China's domestic and international climate and environmental policies.

• Participated in the annual meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development in Beijing.

• Spoke on China environmental governance at conferences and events at Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Berkeley Law, Harvard University, National University of Singapore, UC Irvine, and the University of Michigan. 

• Published a UCLA Law Review article reviewing Gitanjali Nain Gill’s recent book, Environmental Justice in India. The book is the first comprehensive assessment of India's National Green Tribunal, a specialized environmental court established in 2010. Zasloff argues for an expansion of legal assistance to underserved communities.

• With supervising attorney Julia Stein, teaches our California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic, offered for the first time at UCLA Law in Fall 2019. The clinic exposes students to the inner workings of the California Legislature (and Sacramento in general), and to the unique role attorneys can play in the lawmaking and policy process.

• Testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation on the challenges facing the Coast Guard, our ports, and other public agencies as they try to make sure our coastal infrastructure is resilient to emerging risks relating to coastal change.

• Co-organized a conference at UCLA Law on the insurance industry's role in managing climate risk with more than 175 participants. At the conference, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a new collaboration with the United Nations to develop guidelines for sustainable insurance in California.

• Moderated a plenary session at the North American Carbon World 2019 conference with Commissioner Lara, Annie Notthoff of NRDC, Jerry Schubel of the Aquarium of the Pacific, and Chris Thompson with SoCal Edison.

• Spoke at a Zócalo Public Square event on the future of California's coastline, alongside UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall, California Coastal Commission member Effie Turnbull Sanders, and Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia.

• Contributed to Los Angeles County's first sustainability plan, along with other UCLA faculty from multiple departments.

• Co-organized the Emmett Institute's spring symposium at UCLA Law for more than 200 participants exploring California's status and future as an environmental pioneer. Moderated a conversation with CARB Chair Mary Nichols.

• Spoke at a UC Irvine public conference on the shifting narrative on climate change, addressing law and justice issues on a panel with speakers from UCI, USC, Yale Law School.

• Co-authored comment letters on a federal proposal to narrow the reach of lightbulb efficiency standards, a draft environmental impact statement for the Pebble Mine in Alaska, California's Tropical Forest Standard, and on the Trump administration's plans to weaken emission standards for new coal-fired power plants.

• After the announcement of the Green New Deal, addressed legal issues for the proposal at a one-day conference for academics, civil society groups, and policymakers hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.

• Taught Environmental Law and Climate and Energy Law and led students on a tour of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.

• At UCLA Law's LEAD Summit, delivered a tribute to the Hon. Dorothy Wright Nelson ’53, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Horowitz previously served as Judge Nelson's law clerk.

• Addressed a range of California and U.S. environmental issues in leading media outlets, including KPCC, Sacramento Bee, CALMatters, and others.

• Serves as co-chair of the steering committee of the Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge

• Developed and launched UCLA Law's California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic, offered for the first time at UCLA Law in Fall 2019. Guided ten students in legal research, policy development, and legislative drafting in partnership with elected officials and their staff.

• Co-taught the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic in Fall 2018, overseeing student projects including a trip to Washington, D.C. with students to brief Congress on legislation that could help reduce plastic pollution in oceans.

• Published an op-ed in The Regulatory Review on the need for comprehensive federal legislation on marine plastic pollution.

• Addressed policy audiences on land-use and transportation issues at the UCLA Lewis Center's InterActions LA 2019 conference and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust's 2019 Park Equity Summit.

• Responded to the Trump administration's efforts to roll back auto emissions regulations, co-authoring an issue brief and authoring a blog post for the American Constitution Society, and providing perspectives to leading media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, CALMatters, and others.

• Served on the Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association's Environmental Law Section, including assisting in planning the 2018 and 2019 Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite and planning and coordinating the 2019 Annual Student Environmental Negotiations Competition in San Francisco.

• Holly Buck, Emmett Climate Engineering Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2019-2021
• Charles Corbett, Emmett Climate Engineering Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2019-2021
• Meredith Hankins, Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2017-2019
• Benjamin Harris, Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2019-2021
• Harjot Kaur, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2018-2020

• Nathaniel Logar, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2017-2019
• Jesse Reynolds, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2018-2020
• Siyi Shen, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, 2019-2021
• Daniel Melling, Communications Manager

• James Salzman spoke on a panel on recent environmental law developments in the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and California Supreme Court.

• Sean Hecht spoke on a panel on managing climate change impacts on coastlines.

• Julia Stein is a member of the California Lawyers Association Environmental Law Section Executive Committee that planned the conference. Hecht and Cara Horowitz are Advisors to the section and former Executive Committee members.

• Frank D. Boren Summer Fellow Orran Balagopalan '21 worked at the California Coastal Commission's Enforcement Division to address violations of the California Coastal Act regarding coastal access and habitat protection.

• Frank D. Boren Summer Fellow Mindy Jian '20 worked at Natural Resources Defense Council as a legal intern on urban water issues, such as water affordability and lead in drinking water at schools.

• Emmett Family Summer Fellow Idalmis Vaquero '21 worked at Communities for a Better Environment on environmental justice issues in Los Angeles.

• Oscar Espino-Padron ‘11, Earthjustice

• Sherry Jackman ‘10, Greenberg Glusker

• Heather Leslie ‘15, California Department of Justice, Environment Section

• Kayla Karimi '19 is working at San Francisco Baykeeper, where she is advocating for the protection of San Francisco Bay ecosystems and communities. 

• Alexandra Gay '19 is working at Earthjustice’s Washington, D.C. office to protect communities exposed to air toxics emitted from industrial facilities.