Contributors
Eric Biber
UC Berkeley
Eric Biber is a specialist in conservation biology, land-use planning and public lands law. Biber brings technical and legal scholarship to the field of environmental law. Prior to joining Berkeley Law in 2006, he worked in the Denver office of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit organization specializing in public lands and other environmental cases. His principal research interests include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law and property.
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Ann Carlson
UCLA
Ann Carlson is Professor of Law and the inaugural Faculty Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. Professor Carlson’s scholarship in environmental law focuses on climate change law and policy, federalism and the role social norms play in affecting environmentally cooperative behavior. Her recent work involves analyzing unusual models of environmental federalism, with a focus on the unique role California plays in regulating mobile source emissions, including greenhouse gas emissions, under the Clean Air Act.
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Holly Doremus
UC Berkeley
Holly Doremus is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at UC Berkeley. Doremus brings a strong background in life sciences and a commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship to her work at Berkeley Law. She earned her PhD in Plant Physiology from Cornell University and was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Missouri before making the transition to law. Her major fields of interest are environmental law, natural resources law, and law and science.
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Ethan Elkind
UC Berkeley and UCLA
Ethan Elkind is the Bank of America Climate Change Research Fellow with a joint appointment at the UC Berkeley School of Law and the UCLA School of Law. In this capacity, he serves as the key organizer and researcher for UCLA-UC Berkeley’s grant-funded climate change workshops. He taught at the UCLA law school’s Frank Wells Environmental Law Clinic and served as an environmental law research fellow. He has a background in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), climate change law, environmental justice, and other environmental law topics. In 2005, he co-founded The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc., a Native American nonprofit organization that provides alternative dispute resolution services and support for tribal governance, justice and educational institutions.
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Rhead Enion
UCLA
As the Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA Law, Rhead Enion researches law and policy solutions to the climate change crisis for the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, and conducts research on other environmental issues for the Evan Frankel Environmental Law & Policy Program. He also will work closely with UCLA Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Clinic. His research interests include cap-and-trade, coastal science and policy, environmental modeling, First Amendment law and civil liberties.
Enion is a 2010 graduate of Duke Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Duke Law Journal and graduated magna cum laude. He has worked as a research fellow at Duke’s Nicholas Institute and has interned with Oceana, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the ACLU of North Carolina.
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Dan Farber
UC Berkeley
Dan Farber has written and taught on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. Currently at Berkeley Law, he has also spent time at Minnesota Law School (where he became the first Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law in 1987), Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School (where he was named McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law in 2000). He is also a pioneer in the emerging field of Disaster Law, which examines legal issues related to society’s ability to deal effectively with the aftermath of catastrophes and the risk of future disasters.
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Richard Frank
UC Davis
Richard Frank is Professor of Environmental Practice and Director of the U. C. Davis School of Law’s California Environmental Law & Policy Center. From 2006-2010, he served as Executive Director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment and as a Lecturer in Residence at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Frank’s particular research interests include climate change law and policy; water in the American West; environmental governance questions; property rights and the environment; and coastal and oceans policy.
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Sean Hecht
UCLA
Sean B. Hecht is the Executive Director of the UCLA Environmental Law Center at UCLA School of Law. He co-directs the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic and directs the activities of the Evan Frankel Law and Policy Program, which include research and education on governance, regulation, and environmental policy. His current research interests include climate change’s relationship with the insurance sector, environmental impact analysis of governmental decisions, and the regulation of freshwater resources and water bodies under the Clean Water Act.
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Andrew Guzman
UC Berkeley
Andrew Guzman is Professor of Law and Director of the Advanced Law degree Programs at Berkeley Law School, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Guzman holds a J.D. and Ph.D. (economics) from Harvard University. He has written extensively on international trade, international regulatory matters, foreign direct investment and public international law, and served as editor on the recently published Handbook of International Economic Law (Elgar Publishers) and authored How International Law Works (Oxford University Press). Professor Guzman is a member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Academic Council and is on the board of several academic journals.
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Jayni Hein
UC Berkeley
Jayni Hein is executive director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law. Her research interests include climate change law and policy and regulation of freshwater resources. Prior to returning to Berkeley Law, Ms. Hein practiced environmental law at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco.
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Cara Horowitz
UCLA
Cara Horowitz is the first Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, which is dedicated to studying and advancing law and policy solutions to the climate change crisis and training the next generation of leaders in creating these solutions. Prior to joining UCLA’s faculty, she worked on oceans and wildlife issues as a staff attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Deborah Lambe
UC Berkeley
Deborah Lambe ’95 is a Senior Policy Associate at the Center on Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Prior to joining CLEE, she practiced environmental, land use and real estate law, both in private practice and in government. In addition to her law degree, Deborah has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in energy policy and environmental economics.
Timothy Malloy
UCLA
Timothy Malloy teaches Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions, The Law of Environmental Management, Regulation of the Business Firm, and Contracts. With Ann Carlson and Sean Hecht, Malloy is Co-Director of the School of Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1998, after spending a combined 11 years in practice at private firms and at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III. Professor Malloy’s research interests focus on environmental, chemical and nanotechnology policy, regulatory policy, and organizational theory, with particular emphasis on the relationship between regulatory design and implementation and the structure of business organizations.
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Ted Parson
UCLA
Edward A. (Ted) Parson is Professor of Law at UCLA. His research examines international environmental law and policy, the role of science and technology in policy-making, and the political economy of regulation. Prior to coming to UCLA, he served on the faculties of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (1992-2003) and the University of Michigan (2003-2012), where he was Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, and Professor of Public Policy. In addition to his academic work, Parson has held advisory and policy positions in the governments of the United States and Canada, and has served on multiple national and international advisory bodies. He holds degrees in Physics from the University of Toronto (1975) and in Management Science from the University of British Columbia (1981), and a Ph.D. in Public Policy (1992) from Harvard.
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Jeffrey Russell
UC Berkeley
Jeff is the Renewable Energy Research Fellow at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. His research focuses on legal and policy issues related to California’s ambitious renewable energy goals.
Previously, he was an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where he was engaged in litigation and regulatory advocacy to rebuild fisheries and protect marine habitat. Prior to joining NRDC, he practiced environmental and land use law at firms in San Francisco and San Diego. Jeff serves on the Board of Directors of San Francisco Baykeeper.
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Alex Wang
UC Berkeley
Alex Wang is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. His research is focused on the development of China’s legal system and the role of law and environmental governance in China’s environmental protection. He was previously based in Beijing for nearly six years as a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and director of NRDC’s China Environmental Law & Governance Project, which he helped to establish in 2005. Prior to NRDC, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Peking University School of Law, and an attorney at a New York City law firm engaged in mergers & acquisitions and pro bono Endangered Species Act litigation.
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Steve Weissman
UC Berkeley
Steve is a Lecturer in Residence at Berkeley Law, Director of the Energy and Cleantech program, and Associate Director for Energy Law and Policy of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. He is a former administrative law judge, attorney, and policy advisor to the California Public Utilities Commission where he specialized in energy and environmental matters, He also served as Principal Consultant to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Natural Resources. There, he wrote and reviewed legislation concerning energy, air quality, and solid waste management. He is also an environmental mediator.
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Jonathan Zasloff
UCLA
Jonathan Zasloff teaches Torts, Land Use, Environmental Law, Comparative Urban Planning Law, Legal History, and Public Policy Clinic – Land Use, the Environment and Local Government. He has practiced for at one of Los Angeles’ leading public interest environmental and land use firms, challenging poorly planned development and working to expand the network of the city’s urban park system, and serves on the Boards of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
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