Recent UCLA School of Law conferences addressing climate change include Perpectives on Climate Change, Pollution, and the Clean Air Act, held in April 2010; our 2009 symposium on India and Climate Change; the 2008 UCLA Law Review Symposium on Changing Climates; the  2007 Frankel Symposium: Coping With Global Warming; and the  2006 Frankel Symposium.  Each of these conferences brought together scholars, policymakers, and advocates to share information and analysis about climate change's effects on our society and what we can do about those effects. 


Friday, April 9, 2010
UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, California

We brought together non-profit groups, policy analysts, and legal and political science scholars working both in the U.S. and in India on climate change issues for an all-day symposium examining how India will affect, and be affected by, climate change.  Panels focused on promising routes for engaging with India post-Copenhagen; challenges for domestic progress in India on climate and energy; and the intersection of international trade law and climate questions in India-US relations.

Panelists and speakers included:

· Deepa Badrinarayana, Chapman University School of Law
· Ann Carlson, UCLA School of Law
· Magali Delmas, UCLA Institute of the Environment
· Daniel Emmett, Energy Independence Now
· Gaurav Gupta, Climate Project India
· Anjali Jaiswal, Natural Resources Defense Council – India Project
· Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
· Varun Rai, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
· Armin Rosencranz, Stanford University
· David Victor, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, UC San Diego
· Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA School of Law



Papers from the 2007 symposium have been published in a special issue of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.  Papers from UCLA Law Review's annual symposium in 2008 are available   here  and include the following:

SYMPOSIUM
ARTICLES

Implementing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Caps: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
 Ann E. Carlson
The Place-Based Theory of Standing
 Daniel A. Farber
Climate Change and the Transformation of Risk: Insurance Matters
  Sean B. Hecht
Like a Nation State   Douglas A. Kysar
& Bernadette A. Meyler
The World vs. the United States and China? The Complex Climate Change Incentives of the Leading Greenhouse Gas Emitters
  Cass R. Sunstein
Individual Carbon Emissions: The Low-Hanging Fruit   Michael P. Vandenbergh,
Jack Barkenbus
& Jonathan Gilligan
Measuring the Clean Development Mechanism's Performance and Potential
 Michael Wara
Climate Change Policy and Policy Change in China
  Jonathan B. Wiener
The Judicial Carbon Tax: Reconstructing Public Nuisance and Climate Change  Jonathan Zasloff