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UCLA School of Law is a leader in teaching, research and public service on important environmental law and policy issues.
The law school's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic, and Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program, as well as the work of UCLA’s world-class environmental law faculty, provide opportunities for members of the UCLA community to have a voice in solving the important environmental issues facing us in the 21st century, and to educate the public about these issues.
 The UCLA School of Law is a leader in addressing legal and institutional aspects of global climate change. The law school has launched the new Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, with Cara Horowitz as the Center's inaugural Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director. The Emmett Center is building on the important work that UCLA faculty and students are already undertaking in this area. Recent work in the field includes faculty research and media commentary by Professors Ann Carlson, Jonathan Zasloff, and Sean Hecht, Wells Clinic work by students and faculty, and our three recent symposia that addressed legal and policy aspects of our society's response to climate change. Both the UCLA Law Review and the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy are publishing special symposium issues in 2008 on climate change.
 The School of Law's Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic offers opportunities for students to obtain hands-on experience in environmental law. By working as co-counsel with such organizations as the Santa Monica BayKeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the clinic works to clean up air and water in Los Angeles and beyond. Students work on large and small cases, both federal and state, involving citizen enforcement actions under various environmental statutes.
 The mission of UCLA School of Law's Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program is to foster informed analysis of timely and important issues involving governance and regulation in environmental policy. The Frankel Program examines the institutions and processes that determine how decisions are made and how policies are implemented.
The School of Law's core environmental law faculty include Professors Ann Carlson, Timothy Malloy, Kal Raustiala, and Jonathan Zasloff, Environmental Law Center Executive Director Sean Hecht, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change, Cara Horowitz, and fellows Katherine Trisolini and Ethan Elkind. The faculty's cutting-edge research on governance and regulation in international, federal, and local environmental policy has been widely praised throughout the legal academic community.
UCLA School of Law offers a diverse curriculum aimed at providing law students a basic grounding in environmental law and related subjects, as well as opportunities to explore more advanced topics through seminars and clinical courses.
Students at UCLA School of Law have the opportunity to get involved in environmental research and advocacy through programs such as the Environmental Law Journal, Environmental Law Society, environmental internships, and the School of Law's Externship Program.
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UCLA School of Law Receives Major Gift from Dan Emmett Family to Establish Nation’s First Law School Center Focused on Climate Change
UCLA School of Law has received a commitment from Dan A. Emmett and his family to establish a Center on Climate Change and the Environment. The gift from Dan and Rae Emmett (center and right, pictured with UCLA School of Law Dean Michael Schill), combined with a matching gift challenge, will provide a $10 million endowment fund to establish a center dedicated to the study, research and teaching of knowledge related to climate change and the environment.
UCLA School of Law joins with the School of Public Health to Launch the Initiative on Sustainable Technology
The Initiative on Sustainable Technology brings together researchers from those schools and others across the UCLA campus in a unique, action-oriented initiative. It responds to growing concerns regarding the pervasive use of chemicals in California, and the explosive growth in the development and commercialization of nanomaterials—engineered particles having a size of 100 nanometers or less. The Initiative will engage in empirical research and policy analysis; education; technical assistance; and public outreach in those areas. Its interdisciplinary projects will include providing scientific, policy and legal support to community-based environmental health organizations, policymakers and other stakeholders regarding green chemistry and nanotechnology issues, and policy research concerning the insidious use of lead in industrial and consumer applications, and toxic pesticide use in California agriculture. The Initiative will also sponsor the 2009 Working Conference on Nanotechnology Policy in the spring in collaboration with the UCLA Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, and the Law School’s own Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program.
UCLA School of Law Hosts Major Climate Change Symposium
On January 25, 2008, UCLA Law Review hosted a daylong symposium, "Changing Climates: Adapting Law and Policy to a Transforming World." The public symposium, partially funded through the law school's Evan Frankel Environmental Law & Policy Program, brought together policymakers, legal scholars and environmental experts to address the impact of climate change on law and policy. Articles from the symposium will be published this summer in Volume 56 of the UCLA Law Review.
Professor Malloy Co-Authors Report Showing Chemical Exposures Cost California an Estimated $2.6 Billion
Professor Timothy Malloy co-authored a report that shows existing state laws regulating the production and use of hazardous chemicals have serious gaps and fail to protect public health and the environment. Researchers at UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley, found that as a result of inadequate oversight, chemical- and pollution-related diseases among children and workers in California cost the state an estimated $2.6 billion in direct and indirect costs. The report, "Green Chemistry: Cornerstone to a Sustainable California," which has been endorsed by 127 faculty members from seven UC campuses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, includes a set of recommended policy reforms for the state.
A copy of the report is available at www.coeh.ucla.edu/greenchemistry.pdf.
 UCLA Environmental Law Clinic students travel to the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast to provide legal services: Clinic students, under Professor Tim Malloy's direction, have been working with a Mississippi Sierra Club chapter to evaluate and provide comments for a proposed Chevron refinery expansion permit. As part of the trip to the gulf coast, the students participated in a public hearing on the proposed permit in front of Mississippi regulators, local officials and members of the public.
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