Ann Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, and the Faculty Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. She is also on the faculty of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Professor Carlson is one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy. Her work has been published in leading journals including the UCLA, California, Northwestern and Michigan law reviews. She is co-author (with Daniel Farber and Jody Freeman) of a leading casebook, Environmental Law (8th ed.). She is also a frequent commentator and speaker on environmental issues, particularly on climate change, and blogs at Legal Planet.
